Magnitude 4 earthquake strikes Hyderabad, no damages reported

The National Center for Seismology (NCS) has reported that Hyderabad was rocked by an earthquake, measuring magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale today early in the morning. According to the alert issued by the earthquake monitoring agency, the epicentre of the earthquake lay in Andhra Pradesh, 156 kilometres south of Hyderabad.

NCS further informed that the earthquake hit the region at a depth of 10 kilometres providing the latitude and longitudinal details of the quake’s epicentre. The officials of NCS took to their Instagram handle and wrote “Earthquake of Magnitude:4.0, Occurred on 26-07-2021, 05:00:53 IST, Lat: 16.00 & Long: 78.22, Depth: 10 Km, Location: 156km S of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India,”