We had a magnitude 2.6 earthquake hit today.

Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 07:01:52 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 2.6, 3.1 miles deep
Lat: 36.295 Long: -94.251
Event ID: us2010wnab

I was at the tattoo studio and there was two loud bangs which reverberated through the building. I thought someone had wrecked their vehicle into the building. I went outside and looked, but nothing. Freaky.

This is the 2nd earthquake in the last month. Freakier.

Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 10:52:31 AM local time at epicenter
Magnitude 2.5
36.33N 94.31W
Event ID: us2010vrbm

Before that, there have been no earthquakes in this county in recorded history. Even more freaky.

I dug some digging at the USGS database and found the following other earthquakes near the area:

• May 25, 1986, Twin Oaks, OK, Magnitude 2.2, Lat: 36.230 Long: -94.877
• June 20, 1926, Evening Shade, AR, Magnitude 4.2 (Richter?), Lat: 35.600 Long: -94.900
• July 8, 1925, Alpena, AR, Magnitude 3.9 (Richter?), Lat: 36.300 Long: -93.200

There have been others felt in the area, but as per information found in other sources, but those were the only ones recorded.

I guess something had to build all the gorgeous mountains around us here in Arkansas. Maybe it’s back to add on more?

This is NOT how I imagined the first two days of Spring:

We received a foot of snow officially. Crazy! (Click to see it on flickr)

Brushing snow off my truck. (Click to see it on flickr)

Who the Hell ordered all the snow?

“Snowlapse”, as it’s called. Interesting to watch.

That poor bear left out to be buried in the snow….

I need to set up a camera to do something like this. Not that we get that much snow here. Maybe a passing tornado or two though.

Tipped from Andrew Sullivan.

It’s 5 ºF outside right now. And it’s supposed to just get colder over the next two days.

I have no idea how you people who live in more northerly latitudes endure this every year. Y’all are craaaaaaaaaaazy!

Okay, these will be the last I’ll post here.

All my pictures are over at my flickr account if you want to see all the other pictures I took that I didn’t post here.

Now, to find something warm….