You may have felt something around 12:24 this afternoon. There was earthquake that people actually felt from all over the state, including here in Metro Detroit. It was a 4.2 earthquake as confirmed by The United States Geological Survey. It was located near Galesburg, which is east of Kalamazoo.
“It’s rare for Michigan to experience earthquakes, but as we were reminded today, it does happen,” Gov. Rick Snyder said on his webpage. “There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage because of today’s earthquake, and that’s fortunate because we are acutely aware of the challenges posed by such natural disasters in other parts of the world recently.”
In addition to here in Michigan, the earthquake was also felt from Toledo to Chicago. It was the second strongest quake in Michigan’s recorded history. The largest earthquake in state history was a magnitude-4.6 tremor that occurred August 9, 1947, in the south-central part of the state, the USGS said.