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EARTHQUAKES · CULBERSON COUNTY

Earthquakes in the Culberson County area

TexNet events inside the footprint of the county's 2,022 located permits, padded 0.1°. Events carry no county, so this is an area, and border clusters show up in more than one. The county's disposal wells →

TexNet located 896 M2+ earthquakes in the Culberson County area in the last twelve months, 10% fewer than the year before, 71 of them M3 or more.

The largest on record here was M5.4 on May 4, 2025, 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

122 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 4.1 million barrels a day of permitted capacity and 294 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.

62 deep disposal wells here report daily to TexNet; they took 373,251 barrels a day in August 2026.

896
M2+ events, last 12 months -10%
71
M3+ events, last 12 months
1,895
M2+ events, last 2 years
M5.4
largest on record, May 4, 2025

M2+ events, by month

LAST FIVE YEARS

Last 12 months 819 · prior 12 1,015(-19%)

010020030020222023202420252026M5.4M5.2M5.0M5.4

M2–2.9M3+month with an M4+ event; M5+ labeled, hover for the rest

By magnitude

M2+ events in the last two years, in half-magnitude steps. Each step up is about 32 times the energy.

  • M2.0–2.41,375
  • M2.5–2.9376
  • M3.0–3.4106
  • M3.5–3.931
  • M4.0–4.44
  • M4.5–4.91
  • M5.0–5.42

By year

YearM2+M3+Largest
202674360M4.0
20251,02277M5.4
20241,20899M4.2
20231,816147M5.2
20222,055179M5.4
20211,382141M4.5
202019554M5.0
2019518M3.8
2018131M3.0

RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily

Disposal in the same county

122
active injection wells
4.09M
bbl/d permitted
294M
bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025
373K
bbl/d, 62 daily reporters, Aug 2026

All of Culberson County's disposal wells and volumes →

Recent events

M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL

WhenMagWhereDepth
Nov 4, 2026, 12:23 AM2.057 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.2 km
Nov 3, 2026, 8:06 AM2.049 km NW of Toyah, Texas5.9 km
Nov 3, 2026, 3:01 AM2.058 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.7 km
Nov 2, 2026, 11:09 PM2.062 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.1 km
Nov 2, 2026, 3:14 PM2.351 km ESE of Dell City, Texas4.8 km
Nov 2, 2026, 11:18 AM2.456 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.7 km
Nov 2, 2026, 10:53 AM2.357 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico4.9 km
Nov 2, 2026, 6:18 AM2.159 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.6 km
Nov 2, 2026, 12:22 AM2.058 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.2 km
Nov 1, 2026, 9:40 AM2.755 km S of Whites City, New Mexico7.2 km
Nov 1, 2026, 12:59 AM2.155 km S of Whites City, New Mexico4.4 km
Oct 31, 2026, 2:39 PM2.437 km NNW of Toyah, Texas7.6 km
Oct 31, 2026, 2:39 PM2.436 km NNW of Toyah, Texas8.6 km
Oct 31, 2026, 4:07 AM2.261 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.1 km
Oct 30, 2026, 2:18 AM2.157 km NW of Toyah, Texas7.6 km
Oct 28, 2026, 8:40 PM2.160 km S of Whites City, New Mexico8.6 km
Oct 28, 2026, 4:27 PM3.755 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico6.1 km
Oct 27, 2026, 10:01 AM2.559 km NW of Toyah, Texas5.4 km
Oct 26, 2026, 5:18 AM2.058 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.4 km
Oct 26, 2026, 5:09 AM2.658 km S of Whites City, New Mexico6.5 km
Oct 25, 2026, 12:37 PM2.058 km S of Whites City, New Mexico7.0 km
Oct 25, 2026, 7:56 AM2.358 km S of Whites City, New Mexico7.4 km
Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM2.140 km NW of Toyah, Texas8.7 km
Oct 23, 2026, 9:39 PM2.050 km NW of Toyah, Texas6.1 km
Oct 23, 2026, 5:30 AM2.044 km NW of Toyah, Texas6.1 km

About this data

TexNet catalog events inside 31.20–32.10°N, 103.93–104.76°W, refreshed daily. Disposal figures from the RRC UIC well master and H-10 filings at the last settled month.

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