Earthquakes in the Dawson County area
TexNet events inside the footprint of the county's 550 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 16 M2+ earthquakes in the Dawson County area in the last twelve months, 16% fewer than the year before, 1 of them M3 or more.
The largest on record here was M3.8 on March 5, 2024, 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas.
638 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 2.8 million barrels a day of permitted capacity and 89 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.
17 deep disposal wells here report daily to TexNet; they took 284,892 barrels a day in August 2026.
- 16
- M2+ events, last 12 months -16%
- 1
- M3+ events, last 12 months
- 35
- M2+ events, last 2 years
- M3.8
- largest on record, Mar 5, 2024
M2+ events, by month
LAST FIVE YEARS
Last 12 months 16 · prior 12 20(-20%)
M2–2.9M3+
By magnitude
M2+ events in the last two years, in half-magnitude steps. Each step up is about 32 times the energy.
- M2.0–2.423
- M2.5–2.99
- M3.0–3.41
- M3.5–3.92
By year
| Year | M2+ | M3+ | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 1 | M3.0 |
| 2025 | 19 | 2 | M3.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 | M3.8 |
| 2023 | 40 | 3 | M3.2 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4 | M3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | 1 | M3.1 |
RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily
Disposal in the same county
- 638
- active injection wells
- 2.83M
- bbl/d permitted
- 89.3M
- bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025
- 285K
- bbl/d, 17 daily reporters, Aug 2026
Recent events
M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL
| When | Mag | Where | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026, 1:02 AM | 2.1 | 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas | 8.6 km |
| Sep 26, 2026, 10:24 AM | 2.4 | 37 km SSW of Lamesa, Texas | 7.4 km |
| Sep 22, 2026, 9:16 PM | 2.8 | 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 7.0 km |
| Sep 2, 2026, 10:46 PM | 2.3 | 6 km SE of Ackerly, Texas | 7.3 km |
| Jul 3, 2026, 11:08 PM | 2.8 | 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.6 km |
| Jun 22, 2026, 5:53 AM | 2.4 | 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas | 8.3 km |
| Jun 22, 2026, 5:42 AM | 2.1 | 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas | 9.3 km |
| Jun 14, 2026, 10:30 PM | 2.4 | 27 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 8.2 km |
| Jun 3, 2026, 2:58 PM | 2.3 | 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.9 km |
| May 10, 2026, 3:38 PM | 2.7 | 32 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.8 km |
| May 3, 2026, 11:49 PM | 2.2 | 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 8.8 km |
| Apr 16, 2026, 11:55 PM | 2.0 | 30 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 9.0 km |
| Mar 9, 2026, 8:02 PM | 2.4 | 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 8.2 km |
| Mar 9, 2026, 2:48 PM | 2.1 | 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 7.8 km |
| Feb 20, 2026, 7:12 PM | 3.0 | 37 km SSW of Lamesa, Texas | 7.8 km |
| Dec 15, 2025, 1:17 PM | 2.0 | 10 km S of Ackerly, Texas | 7.0 km |
| Sep 14, 2025, 10:40 AM | 2.5 | 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 8.9 km |
| Sep 1, 2025, 7:02 AM | 2.2 | 37 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas | 8.7 km |
| Jul 10, 2025, 9:37 AM | 3.7 | 33 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 8.4 km |
| Jun 25, 2025, 10:50 AM | 2.0 | 33 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 9.3 km |
| May 15, 2025, 3:06 AM | 2.0 | 9 km S of Ackerly, Texas | 8.4 km |
| May 2, 2025, 3:58 AM | 3.6 | 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 5.8 km |
| Apr 30, 2025, 9:06 AM | 2.1 | 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.2 km |
| Apr 29, 2025, 10:27 AM | 2.7 | 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.3 km |
| Apr 28, 2025, 2:43 AM | 2.2 | 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas | 6.6 km |
About this data
TexNet catalog events inside 32.42–33.06°N, 101.59–102.30°W, refreshed daily. Disposal figures from the RRC UIC well master and H-10 filings at the last settled month.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/earthquakes/tx/dawson, documented in the API reference.