On Friday, a tremor of 3.8 magnitude occurred off Maharashtra`s Palghar coast near Mumbai, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.

J L Gautam, scientist with the NCS told PTI, "The quake occurred at 5.19 pm at a depth of 10 kilometres inside the sea off the coast of Palghar, some 78 kilometres north west of the metropolis."