The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports it took just a little over two minutes for the shock waves to make their way to Wisconsin. People from Milwaukee to Madison reported they felt the shaking from the earthquake.
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The quake was felt around 10 p.m. Monday along the Wisconsin/Illinois border. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the 2.4 magnitude earthquake was centered in McHenry County, Illinois, just south of Kenosha County, Wisconsin. No damage or injuries were reported.
The source of the booms shaking residents of Clintonville, Wisconsin, this week has been a mystery. But the U.S. Geological Survey now thinks the town is being swept by a swarm of microquakes. One of them was measured at magnitude 1.5, which could probably be felt for a radius of about five miles.
Eden Prairie-based Supervalu Inc. has inked a deal to sell its supermarket distribution center near Kenosha, Wis., to Meijer Inc., a Michigan-based retailer and grocer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Terms of the deal were not released. Supervalu is set to move out of the 580,000-square-foot facility by 2013.
President Barack Obama arrived in Madison, Wis., at about 2:40 a.m. Monday, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. He and rocker Bruce Springsteen rallied a crowd there later in the morning.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says last year's beverage milk sales fell to the lowest level since 1984. One expert blames the drop on consumers shifting toward bottled water, tea and sports drinks, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board says yogurt consumption is up 400 percent from 30 years ago. Cheese sales are also up.
The massive storm on the East Coast that's claimed dozens of lives and wiped out entire communities is already expected to cause over $50 billion in damage. Handfuls of volunteers from various Minnesota agencies have been dispatched to help with emergency relief efforts. Waves up to 20 feet tall have stalled cargo shipping on the Great Lakes and dozens of flights out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were cancelled Tuesday.
A new law takes effect in Wisconsin on Thursday that bans drivers with an instruction permit or probationary license from “using a cellular or other wireless telephone except to report an emergency.” The law is primarily aimed at teens, whose leading cause of death nationwide is traffic crashes, and distracted driving leads to many of those crashes, public safety officials say.
