DETROIT (WKZO AM/FM) — The Motor City was rocking Thursday night, but it wasn’t a Bob Seger or a Kid Rock concert…it was an earthquake.
The epicenter was actually near Amherstburg, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit. They say it registered a 3.6 on the Richter scale. Just a baby quake that did no damage…but a number of Michigander’s and Canadians felt it.
Geologists say while they are rare in southern Michigan, they are not unheard of.
U of M Professor Larry Ruff says “This earthquake is unusual. It is the most significant earthquake in this area since the pair of Michigan events back in May and June of 2015,”
Ruff said. “A magnitude-4.2 earthquake hit near Galesburg in Kalamazoo County in May 2015, and was followed the next month by a smaller one. The May 2015 earthquake near Galesburg was the largest quake in Michigan since 1947 and the second-largest in records dating back roughly a century.”
He says quakes here rarely cause damage because of the geology of the region.
