Minute earthquakes reported
Feb 19, 2010 I Earthquakes.Two small earthquakes have currently been reported in Faulkner County. At 8:44 p.m. on Wednesday, a U.S. Geological Survey seismometer recorded a magnitude-2.5 earthquake 4 miles northwest of Greenbrier & 3 miles south of Twin Groves.
At 2:43 p.m. on Thursday, seismometers recorded a magnitude-1.7 earthquake 3 miles east of Greenbrier & 6 miles south of Guy. USGS recorded the depth of Wednesday night’s earthquake was about 2.7 miles; Thursday’s earthquake was approximately 7 miles deep.
A boy from Haiti whose leg was crushed previous month in the earthquake is now out of surgery. Doctors at Shriners hospital in St. Louis are operational to save the leg of 11-year-old Jean Patrickson. Doctors in Haiti required amputating the boy’s leg so he was brought to St. Louis by a Missouri charity.