A small earthquake shook parts of Monroe County, Michigan, on Monday evening, with a 2.7 magnitude quake striking near Carleton at about 5:32 p.m. Some residents across Metro Detroit reported feeling the tremor, adding another brief jolt to a region that has now had two felt quakes in little more than a week.
The quake was recorded at a depth of roughly 5.2 kilometers, deep enough to be noticed well beyond the immediate area around Carleton. It came just days after a 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Amherstburg, Ontario, on April 26, and that earlier tremor was also felt across the region.
The back-to-back shakes do not point to a major crisis, but they do explain why people from Monroe County to Metro Detroit were talking about the ground moving again. The Monday quake was the smaller of the two, yet it arrived before the April 26 memory had faded, making the latest earthquake today an easy one for residents to notice and compare with the previous event.
What matters now is that the pattern is simple and immediate: a 2.7 magnitude quake near Carleton on Monday followed an earlier 2.9 magnitude event near Amherstburg, and both were felt across the region. For anyone who felt the floor move twice in less than two weeks, that is the answer already — these were small but widely noticed tremors, not isolated reports that disappeared into the background.