The U.S Geological Survey has upgraded the quake from a 4.0 to a 4.2 magnitude.

UPDATE: 2:08 p.m.

Students appear to have mixed experiences about the earthquake which occurred Saturday afternoon. Some felt the earthquake to its fullest extent, and others had no idea about its occurrence.

“I didn’t feel it so I didn’t know what they were talking about,” marketing senior Amy Thomas said. Thomas received the news from friends via text who had noticed the shaking from the earthquake.

“I was just kind of surprised that there was actually something happening,” Thomas said.

The earthquake caught some students by surprise while eating in the Holmes dining hall.

“Our whole table shook and I was confused,” pre-mursing freshman Jackie Quinn said. “I thought my friend was shaking our table, but then the table next to us was like, ‘Did you guys feel that too?’”

Neuroscience freshman Christian Munoz also noticed the quake while in his dorm.

“At first I just thought it was like something wrong with the building because it was like a subtle shake, but then it just kept going and going for a solid 45 seconds,” he said. “I was like, 'I don’t think that’s just the building.'”

The earthquake left some students confused and unsure of what to do.

“Now that we’ve had one (earthquake) I think it’s a possibility we could have one again so (MSU) should definitely implement some earthquake drills,” Quinn said. “You never know.”

Precautionary drills came up among students who feel they should be prepared for stronger earthquakes in the future.

“I feel like it would be ... good, just knowledge to have,” finance freshman Gabriella Menassa. “If they did have information about earthquakes that would be good.”

UPDATE: 1:44 p.m.

MSU Police issued an alert, confirming the minor shaking felt on campus. Infrastructure Planning and Facilities will be checking buildings for structural damage.

UPDATE: 1:16 p.m.

Rob Dale, a regional planner at Ingham County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said the structure damage in East Lansing was a false alarm.

A building was evacuated after someone thought they had spotted cracks in the foundation, but emergency responders did not find any signs of such damage, Dale said.

"This (earthquake) is very rare," he said. "A 4.0 is on the low end of the scale, but for Michigan that's pretty big."

The largest earthquake recorded in Michigan happened in 1947 and registered at magnitude 4.6, according to U.S Geological Survey data.

A magnitude-4.0 earthquake originating south-east of Kalamazoo around 12:23 p.m. caused weak shaking in East Lansing, according to U.S. Geological Survey data.

Ingham County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management sent a statement today confirming a magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred southwest of Battle Creek just after noon Saturday.

"While on the low end of the scale, it is still quite rare for Michigan," the statement read. "There has been a report of one structure damaged in East Lansing."

East Lansing Police could not be immediately reached for comment.