Rare earthquake is second this year in Wisconsin

DOOR COUNTY (NBC 26) – The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake southeast of Sturgeon Bay at 9:18 a.m. Friday.

The quake registered at 2.9 on the Richter scale — an expert says a quake would need to be higher on the scale to be felt by many or cause damage. The quake is the highest magnitude ever recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey in northeastern Wisconsin, and the second-highest in state history, with the Milwaukee area experiencing a 3.8 magnitude quake in 1947. The expert says old cracks in the Earth's crust can sometimes shift to relieve pressure, causing an earthquake. The video shows a map of earthquakes in the state's history

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Did you feel that? We're in Sturgeon Bay, and there was an earthquake this morning – just 24 miles from here, in that general direction, under Lake Michigan.

What happened at 9:18 a.m. Friday, seven miles below the Earth's surface, is rare.

“This has to be a first,” said Ken Graves.

But it is not uncommon.

We spoke with an expert at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay who says that major plate boundaries typically have more seismic activity, but there are smaller cracks in the Earth's crust that exist all over the country.

“We think of earthquakes as happening in California or Japan, but everywhere you go there are these little faults and cracks that are getting a little bit overstressed,” says Sean Malone, an assistant professor of geosciences. “They’ll slip a little bit, and you’ll have an earthquake, just like we did.”

This earthquake measured only 2.9 on the Richter scale.

About 40 people reported feeling the quake on the USGS website, but most people we spoke to in Door County said they didn't notice it.

“We didn't feel anything,” Graves said. “We were home at the time, we got here about 1 o'clock, but nothing happened. We were on the beach all day, and the lake was really flat.”

Malone says the earthquake would need to be much stronger to cause any real damage.

“go to six [on the Richter scale]“It would probably cause at least some structural damage,” Malone said. “My bookcase probably isn’t secured well enough for that.”

Friday's quake was the eighth recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey in Wisconsin over the past century — and the second this year.

There was a 2.5 magnitude earthquake near Crandon in January, and four smaller quakes near Iola in 2018. So you probably don't need to worry about a big one.

“It’s extremely unlikely,” Malone said. “I never want to say anything is impossible, but you probably don’t need to buy earthquake insurance.”

While experts say there is always the possibility that an earthquake could cause aftershocks hours and days after it strikes, they say this quake is unlikely to cause any destructive aftershocks.

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