Good job jessduntno,
Always good for a smile.
Now let me turn on the t.v. and get depressed with pictures of the magic negro.
Actually, Michigan and other midwestern states do get the occasion minor quake as the earth continues to rebound after being compressed for thousands of years under miles of ice.
Red Puma, a good source for info about quakes worldwide, lists the Alaska quake as 5.9:
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/redpuma/redpuma_ami_list.html