Earthquake in Michigan

[HERMAN.40]

About 12:30 today we experienced a 4.2 magnitude earthquake. Between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek heard a loud rumble and the house started shaking. Only lasted about 20 seconds. A few minutes later an aftershock came through, nothing like the first. Haven't heard of any injuries or damage, which is good. Quite an interesting experience

 

[Arik]

Did Detroit improve?

 

[HERMAN.40]

Hard to say, It's a couple of hours to the east.

 

[Lee Barner]

I live about 50 miles or so from New Madrid, MO so we feel the ground shake every now and then. my lab lets me know when we have one I don't feel. she's real sensitive like that. my last cutting horse would come buckin out of the barn once in a while too. I would look on the web site from the U of Memphis and sure enough there had been one. lee

 

[GatorFarmer]

My mother, in Midland, called to tell me about it. She said she felt a shaking.

I am from Michigan originally. I remember tornados being a worry, floods in some areas... Earthquakes allow the bad pun of saying that they shake things up a bit

 

[dentkimterry]

I live 3 miles from the epicenter. Quite frightening indeed. Never experienced anything like it. Thought a truck hit the house.

 

[s&wchad]

Our home is about 100 miles east of the epicenter and I didn't feel it. The talking heads are now reporting that the quake measured 4 points on the Richter scale, with no injuries and no reported property damage.

Mrs. Chad received this inspirational message this morning and it made us both laugh. It just goes to shows how resilient Michiganders really are!

 

[islamoradamark]

were there any riots

 

[Bamaeagle]

My wife has an app on her phone that tells her where earthquakes are around the world. She told me last night about the one in Michigan.

 

[Jack Flash]

I heard it more than felt it. Sounded like a loud truck going by.

The cats freaked out. I did not know it was a quake till the six o'clock news helped me put two and two together.

 

[REM 3200]

Reminds me of the years I lived in Alaska. We would get 4 to 5 a year.
About the only way you knew about it was the news report,
though some you could feel the building shaking.

 

[ACP230]

People downstate gotta stop playing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" by
Jerry Lee Lewis so loud and so long, eh?

The news up here said some people felt the quake in Marquette and one other town maybe Escanaba? My wife does not believe that. Scathingly skeptical she was.

 

[HERMAN.40]

I live 3 miles from the epicenter. Quite frightening indeed. Never experienced anything like it. Thought a truck hit the house.

I'm south of Climax and east of Scotts, About 3 miles each way. I've been to three county fairs and a hog calling contest and never seen nothing like that! Glad it passed, been some oil drilling in the area and the first thing people say " It's the FRACKING!"

 

[HERMAN.40]

were there any riots

Well, My three cats were a bit agitated. But they didn't break any windows.

 

[S&WIowegan]

Those evil frackers have been penetrating Michigan's sacred soil. Maybe you should band together and stone them.....or maybe sand them. I've been in a few mini-quakes(one in NJ) and one minor one in KAL..it was noticeable but the natives ignored it.

 

[mike from st pete]

How is the Village of Fruitport?

 

[Brian41]

I never knew it happened until I read news reports of it. Then again I remember my sister slept through a pretty good size one in Athens in the 70's. My brother-in-law said the bed was jumping off the floor and she never even woke up.

 

[ACP230]

I was really afraid of earthquakes when I lived overseas, in an active
zone, as a kid.
Then my folks told me that I'd already slept through several. Not so
much of a problem then.

I was awake for one later. I was trying to get on a large boat (small ship) and thought the vibration was the engine starting up.
It was an earthquake and the dock was shaking back and forth under me.
We were leaving on vacation and found a fair amount of damage
to our house when we got back. Cracked foundation pillars, stuff
fallen over, etc.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

We were taught in college (MTU by the way) that anything under a magnitude 7 is not breaking fresh rock, just reactivation of an existing fault. Given the location and size, one my assume that it was just a leveling of the stress field from the glacial rebound still.

 

[Coldshooter]

I never knew it happened until I read news reports of it. Then again I remember my sister slept through a pretty good size one in Athens in the 70's. My brother-in-law said the bed was jumping off the floor and she never even woke up.

Quite a few women have that ability.

For some interesting earth quake info Artisan Global produces QuakeFeed app for smart phones. Has data on the 250 most recent earthquakes set by magnitude.