![]() ![]() Although rare, earthquakes can occur in Minnesota. No earth tremor or earthquake was recorded in the area. Kevin Huyck, meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Duluth, checked the seismic records with U.S. Maurice Schwen said in more than 70 years, he's never experienced anything like this before. The Gull Lake property has been in the Schwen family since 1942. "It just looked like a bomb went off underground," Jodi Schwen said. A boathouse next door appears to have shifted from its foundation and previously straight trees are protruding at odd angles. A sidewalk on the elder Schwens' property is pushed up and broken in several places and sand on a nearby beach is mounded up where it's normally flat. ![]() It was not until this past weekend that they took a closer look along the shore and discovered damage to structures and the landscape. Kent Schwen's parents, Maurice and Marvel Schwen, live on a nearby lakeshore lot and experienced the same noise and vibration along with several other neighbors, some more than one-half mile down the shore. The sound was so pronounced, they immediately went outside thinking a home may have been destroyed in a gas explosion. ![]() "I've never been in an earthquake but that's how I imagine it would feel." "It was the deepest rumbling under the house," Jodi Schwen said. 13, Jodi Schwen was watching television at her Gull Lake home when she and husband Kent heard a loud boom and felt the earth move. ![]()
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