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Earthquakes in Wisconsin

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The most recent earthquake of M2.5 or more in Wisconsin was M 2.9, 38 km ESE of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, at 9:18 am CDT on 2 August 2024, 11 km deep. 84 people reported feeling it to USGS.

No earthquake of M1.5 or more was recorded in Wisconsin in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
0
Last 7 days
0
Last 30 days
0 · since 2016, about one every 3 years
Last 12 months
0
Since 2016
4 earthquakes of M1.5 or more
Largest since 2016
M 2.9 on 8 July 2026, 21 km ENE of Kenilworth, Illinois

Latest quake, 24 hours and 7 days: the QuakeIndex database, which reads USGS every 30 seconds, read at ; 30 days and 12 months: the QuakeIndex catalogue, counted to · earthquakes of M1.5 or more in Wisconsin, where USGS names the state in the location

Earthquakes are rare here

10 earthquakes of M1.5 or larger have been recorded in Wisconsin in 10 years, and most weeks have none. There have been none in the last 7 days.

With so few, a QuakeIndex score — this week as a percentile of Wisconsin's own weeks — would only say whether anything happened at all, so none is shown. That is a statement about Wisconsin, not about our data.

USGS catalogue · updated

If you felt one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings or forecasts. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert and the MyShake app.

The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. Too few days here have any earthquake at all to draw a normal range.

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Latest earthquakes in Wisconsin

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Every earthquake in Wisconsin in the last 7 days, from the USGS feed. Colour and size are magnitude; tap one for its page.

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Largest on record in and around Wisconsin

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 2.9 21 km ENE of Kenilworth, Illinois
M 2.9 38 km ESE of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
M 2.6 11 km S of West Ishpeming, Michigan
M 2.5 3 km NE of Mole Lake, Wisconsin
M 2.3 28 km SSE of Republic, Michigan
M 2.3 6 km ESE of Palmer, Michigan
M 2.2 2 km SSW of Ishpeming, Michigan
M 2.2 1 km WSW of Ishpeming, Michigan

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Wisconsin, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Before 2016: the largest in Wisconsin since 1900

The USGS record from 1900 to 2015 lists no earthquake of M5 or more in Wisconsin.

USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900 to 2015, each epicentre counted for the state whose nearest county it is. Epicentres of early earthquakes are estimates. This is the record, not a forecast.

Counties in Wisconsin

Be ready

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, here or anywhere, so the useful step is the one taken beforehand. The advice below is from the agencies responsible for it.