Saturday witnessed three earthquakes in three hours and two tremors were felt in Mumbai. The BMC, which is the authority in control of disaster management, informed the fire brigade, disaster squads and hospitals. While there is no way of predicting an earthquake, the civic authority says it is prepared to tackle such a situation.

The BMC disaster management cell’s chief officer M Narvekar said, “There was no alert in Mumbai, so we kept all the facilities on standby. We received hourly updates from INCOIS, the government’s nodal agency.” The first earthquake of 4.0 magnitude occurred in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat at 8:53 am and tremors were felt in Mumbai too. The second and third occurred in Satara and near Ratnagiri, Maharastra between 10.57 am and 11.47 am of 4.9 and 4.0 magnitude on the Richter scale respectively.