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Old 10-12-2010, 11:11 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Locals in Michigan are still puzzled as to where this came from, and one professor tells a CNN affiliate it could have been caused by a small earthquake.



Unexplained crack in the ground - CNN iReport
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Old 10-12-2010, 04:53 PM
 
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The Great Lakes region is still uplifting after the last glacier period. It could be something along those lines, similar to deflation/inflation events that cause cracks in areas that have volcanoes.
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Old 10-12-2010, 05:21 PM
 
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Exactly what I was thinking earlier.
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Old 10-12-2010, 06:10 PM
 
Location: north of Windsor, ON
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Earthquakes do happen here. My childhood home in north Warren may still have a crack in the living room wall from a quake in the mid-late '80s. I also experienced one while working at a Macomb County Arby's around '98; I remember the stainless steel counter shaking. They're very slight quakes; I didn't even feel the '80s one and I was on the second floor of a school building.
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Old 10-12-2010, 06:28 PM
 
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Yes, Michigan does have earthquakes, although I am not aware of any that far north. AlohaHuey's explanation I think is more plausible.
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Old 10-12-2010, 07:19 PM
 
Location: north of Windsor, ON
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I think the earthquakes I mentioned were epicentered in Ohio.
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Old 10-12-2010, 11:48 PM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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There was an earthquake in Michigan back in 2008 I think..
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Old 10-13-2010, 02:54 AM
 
Location: Hernando, FL
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There was an earthquake in Michigan back in 2008 I think..
I remember it well. I was living about 15 miles West of Kalamazoo at the time. It was real early in the morning about 5 or 6 am and the first tremor woke me up. I was still foggy and waking up and thinking to myself "Did that just really happen or was it a dream"? Then a minute or 2 later it did it again. A quake never entered my mind, I was fearful and thought someone or some animal got in the house overnight. I checked the windows and looked underneath the bed....nothing wrong.

Later that morning on the way to work they were talking about a quake that occured earlier that morning on the radio... ahhh, that explains everything.
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Old 10-13-2010, 05:52 AM
 
Location: America
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We just had one this summer didn't we ? I believe it was centered in Quebec . Also the have the Madrid fault in Missouri that is responsible for most of the quakes up here .
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Old 10-13-2010, 07:07 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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We just had one this summer didn't we ? I believe it was centered in Quebec . Also the have the Madrid fault in Missouri that is responsible for most of the quakes up here .
Here is the info:
2010 Central Canada earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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