[cripplecreek]

I didn't feel nuthin.

[cripplecreek]

Survivors?



Michigan legislative action thread

[softwarecreator]

Felt my desk move for a few moments about half hour ago, the dog also got up and looked around. Kind of figured it was a mini-quake and was waiting to see if it’d hit the news.

[roses of sharon]

Yep, freaked me out!

[erlayman]

I felt it in Northern Indiana, nearly on the border, but had no idea what was going on. Reminded me of just getting back from Japan last week. :)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

WE WILL REBUILD!

[cripplecreek]

OK who fracked?

[be-baw]

I felt it in Lansing. The house shook. My first thought was that it was a mild earth tremor

[VanDeKoik]

Felt nothing here in Grand Rapids.

[COBOL2Java]

The USGS registered it as a 4.0 earthquake centered near Galesburg.

Before the Left Coasters give a raspberry to a 4.0, let it be known that the plate tectonics are radically different between the west, the middle, and the east.

On the west, the plate is like the crust of an apple pie, and it takes a lot more force to cause things to travel and be felt. The plates on the east and middle of the continent is more like the surface of a church bell. A hit from underground, even a small one, travels and is felt much more easily, so a 4.0 is indeed a big thing.

[NormsRevenge]

Fracking? I sleep thru anything below a 5.5. :-)

[Vendome]

Fracking!!!

[John W]

From Detroit CBS affiliate-—

Officials with the United States Geological Survey said an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 and a depth of focus of 5.9 km was measured around 12:23 p.m. about nine miles southeast of Kalamazoo.

The strongest earthquake in Michigan history was a 4.6 magnitude in nearly the exact same location in August 1947.

[tcrlaf]

Shake Map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002avh#impact_dyfi

[Darren McCarty]

I didn’t feel it here, but I’m on the other side of the state.