Quake rattles Maharashtra's Palghar district

A medium-intensity quake hit Palghar district in Maharashtra. The region adjoining Mumbai city and Gujarat state houses the Tarapur atomic power station.

New Delhi: A medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit the coastal district of Palghar in Maharashtra early Friday morning.

"The quake occurred at 3.57 am at a depth of 10 kilometres," the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said, a body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

A district adjoining Gujarat and Mumbai, Palghar also houses the Tarapur Atomic Power Station units 1-4.

The district has been witnessing a series of low-intensity quakes since last week.

(PTI)