CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – A small earthquake that measured 3-point-6 on the Richter scale took place just after noon Tuesday about nine miles southeast of Battle Creek.
Several residents said they heard and felt some rumbles.
Residents around Calhoun County, and some in eastern Kalamazoo County said they heard two loud booms, with the second one much louder and longer than the first.
There were also reports of rattling windows. Others reported noises that sounded like a washing machine off balance or a loud truck passing by their homes.
Tuesday’s quake was not as bad as the one that hit southwest Michigan on May 2, 2015 which measured 4-point-2 on the Richter scale and was centered nine miles south of Galesburg.
According to University of Michigan researchers, that was the largest earthquake with a Michigan epicenter since a magnitude 4-point-6 earthquake struck near Coldwater on August 10, 1947.
(Brandon James contributed to this report)
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