There is one location in Michigan's Lower Peninsula that is more susceptible than anywhere else in the state for an earthquake and it's in Branch County near Coldwater.
It's been a couple of years since Michigan experienced an earthquake, but a mining explosion on Drummond Island came close. The explosion registered 2.7 on the Richter scale.
Where were you around 12:25p.m. Saturday? Did you feel a weird rumbling/ quaking?
I've heard some interesting tales of what people thought it was-- a car accident, odd thunder on an otherwise gorgeous and sunny day, houseguests wrestling in another room (this comes from my little brother who's 24, for which that would be a totally normal thing).
Turns out, it was an actual earthquake here in West
Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa Valley were shaken awake by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Sunday morning. The earthquake hit around 3:30am local time and was centered just south of Napa, California.
This was the strongest earthquake to hit California since 1989 when a 6...
An earthquake near LA on Friday night.
Reports of out of California tonight that a series of earthquakes, the strongest at 5.1, struck near Los Angeles at 9:09pm California time (12:09am Saturday in Michigan).
The US Geological Survey says the 5...
Virginia's earthquake was felt 650 miles away in West Michigan!
Just before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, if your desk shook or your feet felt like they were moving, but you weren't going anywhere, you experienced a tremor -- it was not your imagination.
Everyone at The River is talking about 'where they were' or 'what they were doing' when they felt something peculiar.