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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Narsingdi in Bangladesh

Posted by admin on November 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.8942S, 90.5788WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Narsingdi in Bangladesh. Global time and date of event 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 04:38:26 / November 21, 2025 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 90.5788 East, latitude 23.8942 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:38:26 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rpht. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rpht. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Dhaka (c. 10 356 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Comilla (c. 389 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Tungi (c. 337 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Narsingdi (c. 281 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Nāgarpur (c. 238 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Mymensingh (c. 225 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Nārāyanganj (c. 223 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Agartala (c. 203 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Bangladesh (c. 156 118 000 pop), India (c. 1 173 108 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Netrakona, Lakshmīpur, Gaurnadi.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km WSW of Narsingdi, Bangladesh.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 90.5788° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km WSW of Narsingdi, Bangladesh Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-21 04:38:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-21 04:56:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 470 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 101 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rpht Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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