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Basirhat City
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Basirhat.
Earthquake
On 27 February 2026, an earthquake of about 5.3 on the Richter scale, as reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), struck near the India–Bangladesh border, with its epicentre located roughly 26 km southeast of Taki in West Bengal at a shallow depth of approximately 9.8 km. Tremors from the quake were felt in Basirhat city region and other parts of North 24 Parganas, causing panic among residents and prompting many to evacuate homes, offices, and schools in Basirhat. Only minor structural cracks in buildings were reported in the urban region. The seismic event occurred within the seismically active Bengal Basin region, where the Indian Plate's northward movement against the Eurasian Plate generates occasional moderate earthquakes.