EARTHQUAKES · DAWSON AREA · TX2022BFXN
Magnitude 2.2 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 5:04:53 AM Central · 2022-01-18 11:04:53 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas on January 18, 2022 at 5:04 AM Central, 3.6 km deep, in the Dawson County area.
It is one of 187 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M5.1.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 3 km away and operated by Diamondback E&P LLC; together they hold 187,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
24 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 241,630 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.2
- ML, reviewed
- 3.6
- km deep · 11,795 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 187
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 745
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.4600, -102.0249
- County area
- Dawson County
- On a map
- Google Maps ↗
- Catalog
- USGS event page ↗ · TexNet catalog ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2022, 4:31 AM | 3.0 | 5.4 km | 1.8 km |
| Feb 6, 2022, 12:08 PM | 2.3 | 4.9 km | 14.4 km |
| Mar 7, 2022, 10:56 AM | 2.6 | 6.2 km | 7.6 km |
| Nov 30, 2021, 5:48 PM | 2.1 | 5.8 km | 5.6 km |
| Nov 4, 2021, 4:53 PM | 2.1 | 9.4 km | 13.1 km |
| Oct 31, 2021, 6:00 PM | 2.1 | 9.9 km | 9.7 km |
| Oct 24, 2021, 6:29 PM | 2.0 | 8.3 km | 12.3 km |
| Sep 24, 2021, 5:56 PM | 2.3 | 9.6 km | 8.9 km |
| May 15, 2022, 2:46 AM | 2.1 | 5.3 km | 13.7 km |
| Jun 22, 2022, 6:24 AM | 2.3 | 1.8 km | 6.5 km |
| Jul 24, 2021, 11:44 PM | 2.0 | 5.9 km | 11.4 km |
| Jul 25, 2022, 5:56 AM | 2.3 | 0.5 km | 6.4 km |
Largest nearby on record: M5.1 on Sep 17, 2024.
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. 24 of these report daily to TexNet: 242K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Dawson County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2022bfxn from the USGS earthquake catalog, located by TexNet (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/tx2022bfxn, documented in the API reference.