Bangladesh is a south Asian developing country which is used to struggle with

various natural disasters and the earthquake is one of them. Bangladesh is of the
most earthquake venerable countries of the world.
According to historical records, Bangladesh's northern and eastern regions are
particularly vulnerable to earthquakes due to the proximity to the tectonically
active Himalayan Range, located north of Bangladesh. A significant rate of regional
deformation results in the folding, faulting, and elevation of the neighboring
mountain ranges. Bangladesh is in the converging zone of three tectonic plates, i.e.,
the Indian plate, the Eurasian plate, and the Burmese plate.
An earthquake is a fatal natural disaster that occurs suddenly without any prior
signal. Every year the world faces many earthquakes with magnitudes varying from
low to high. The uncertain nature of earthquakes makes it almost impossible to
predict the exact time of occurrence. So, it is necessary to take precautionary steps
before an earthquake hits. To take preventive measures, a proper study of tectonic
plates and faults.
The history of Bangladesh shows that 1762, 1885, and 1897 earthquakes in
Bangladesh caused widespread damage throughout the country. 2 The recurrence
of similar earthquakes from any of these active seismic sources may cause
significant damage to large population centers in Bangladesh. 3,4 In fact, frequent
earthquakes have recently occurred in nearby regions (e.g., the Nepal earthquake
in 2015 5 and the Myanmar earthquake in 2016 6 ).

Is there any tectonic plate in Bangladesh?

Bangladesh is one of the most tectonically active regions in the world. It
sits where three tectonic plates meet: the Indian Plate, the Eurasian
Plate, and the Burmese Plate. The Indian Plate is moving northeast,
slowly colliding with the Eurasian Plate
What is the tectonic setting of Bangladesh?

The active tectonic elements in and around the country mainly includes the Shillong Plateau, the
Himalayan arc and the Dauki fault system in the north, the Chittagong Tripura fold belt and
Burmese arc in the south, and the Naga-Disang-Haflong thrust zone in the northeast of the
country

Which 3 tectonic plates meet in eastern Asia?

A TTT (a) junction can be found in central Japan where the Eurasian plate overrides the
Philippine and Pacific plates, with the Philippine plate also overriding the Pacific. Here the
Japan Trench effectively branches to form the Ryukyu and Bonin arcs.
Are there only 7 tectonic plates?
There are seven major plates: African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-
Australian, North American, Pacific and South American. The Hawaiian
Islands were created by the Pacific Plate, which is the world's largest
plate at 39,768,522 square miles

Is Bangladesh in danger zone of earthquake?

The existing geological maps, records and our historical geological
experience indicate that the earthquake risk in Bangladesh is truly
moderate. The majority of Bangladesh occupies a lower seismic hazard
zone according to the global seismic response maps, including the city of
Dhaka

1.2 Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

The distribution of earthquakes across the globe is shown in Figure 11.7.
It is relatively easy to see the relationships between earthquakes and the
plate boundaries. Along divergent boundaries like the mid-Atlantic ridge
and the East Pacific Rise, earthquakes are common, but restricted to a
narrow zone close to the ridge, and consistently at less than 30 km depth.
Shallow earthquakes are also common along transform faults, such as the
San Andreas Fault. Along subduction zones, as we saw in Chapter 10,
earthquakes are very abundant, and they are increasingly deep on the
landward side of the subduction zone.
Figure 11.7 General distribution of global earthquakes of magnitude 4 and
greater from 2004 to 2011, colour coded by depth (red: 0-33 km, orange
33-70 km, green: 70-300 km, blue: 300-700 km) [from Dale Sawyer, Rice
University, http://plateboundary.rice.edu ,used with permission]

Earthquakes are also relatively common at a few interpolate locations.

Some are related to the buildup of stress due to continental rifting or the
transfer of stress from other regions, and some are not well understood.
Examples of intraplate earthquake regions include the Great Rift Valley
area of Africa, the Tibet region of China, and the Lake Baikal area of
Russia.

The distribution of earthquakes in the area of the India-Eurasia plate

boundary is shown in Figure 11.11. This is a continent-continent
convergent boundary, and it is generally assumed that although the India
Plate continues to move north toward the Asia Plate, there is no actual
subduction taking place. There are transform faults on either side of the
India Plate in this area.
The entire northern India and southern Asia region is very seismically
active. Earthquakes are common in northern India, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh and adjacent parts of China, and throughout Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Many of the earthquakes are related to the transform faults
on either side of the India Plate, and most of the others are related to
the significant tectonic squeezing caused by the continued convergence
of the India and Asia Plates. That squeezing has caused the Asia Plate to
be thrust over top of the India Plate, building the Himalayas and the Tibet
Plateau to enormous heights. Most of the earthquakes of Figure 11.11
are related to the thrust faults shown in Figure 11.12 (and to hundreds
of other similar ones that cannot be shown at this scale).