EARTHQUAKES · REEVES AREA · TX2021WOOJ
Magnitude 2.4 20 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 6:57:08 PM Central · 2021-11-18 00:57:08 UTC
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake 20 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas on November 17, 2021 at 6:57 PM Central, 2.7 km deep, in the Reeves County area.
It is one of 158 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 4 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.6.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 1.8 km away and operated by Shenandoah Petro Corp; together they hold 221,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.4
- ML, reviewed
- 2.7
- km deep · 8,984 ft
- 4
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 158
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 344
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.1196, -103.2311
- County area
- Reeves County
- On a map
- OpenStreetMap ↗
- Catalog
- TexNet earthquake catalog ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2021, 10:18 PM | 3.0 | 5.9 km | 3.4 km |
| Nov 16, 2021, 7:50 AM | 2.0 | 0.6 km | 1.7 km |
| Nov 21, 2021, 10:44 PM | 2.3 | 4.9 km | 4.0 km |
| Nov 9, 2021, 7:36 AM | 2.5 | 6.5 km | 3.0 km |
| Nov 9, 2021, 3:38 AM | 2.5 | 6.8 km | 3.7 km |
| Oct 31, 2021, 1:03 PM | 2.0 | 8.2 km | 2.6 km |
| Jan 16, 2022, 9:27 AM | 2.0 | 4.4 km | 3.1 km |
| Feb 8, 2022, 1:30 PM | 2.8 | 1.5 km | 2.5 km |
| Feb 15, 2022, 5:40 PM | 2.2 | 6.3 km | 1.0 km |
| Feb 15, 2022, 8:27 PM | 2.5 | 3.9 km | 4.5 km |
| Mar 1, 2022, 3:47 AM | 2.0 | 8.8 km | 5.4 km |
| Aug 2, 2021, 1:10 PM | 3.1 | 4 km | 3.5 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.6 on Nov 29, 2020.
Injection wells within 10 km
RRC UIC MASTER · ACTIVE PERMITS
Proximity is not attribution. The wells are listed because the question is always asked; whether any of them is connected to this event is for the RRC's seismic response review, not this page.
Disposal in Reeves County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
TexNet catalog event tx2021wooj, as published by the UT Bureau of Economic Geology and refreshed daily. Nearby wells from the RRC UIC well master and permit coordinates; daily volumes from the TexNet injection reporting tool.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/earthquakes/tx/events/tx2021wooj, documented in the API reference.