EARTHQUAKES · REEVES AREA · TX2022GBCU
Magnitude 2.9 25 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 6:45:41 PM Central · 2022-03-27 23:45:41 UTC
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake 25 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas on March 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM Central, 3.1 km deep, in the Reeves County area.
It is one of 152 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 1 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 2.1 km away and operated by Waterbridge Texas Oper LLC; together they hold 243,500 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.9
- ML, reviewed
- 3.1
- km deep · 10,165 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 152
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 199
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.0727, -103.2436
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2022, 1:00 AM | 2.7 | 8.8 km | 3.9 km |
| Apr 12, 2022, 4:15 PM | 2.4 | 9.6 km | 1.5 km |
| Mar 1, 2022, 3:47 AM | 2.0 | 4.5 km | 5.4 km |
| Feb 15, 2022, 8:27 PM | 2.5 | 2.7 km | 4.5 km |
| Feb 15, 2022, 5:40 PM | 2.2 | 1.1 km | 1.0 km |
| Feb 8, 2022, 1:30 PM | 2.8 | 4.3 km | 2.5 km |
| Jan 18, 2022, 12:16 AM | 2.4 | 9 km | 5.7 km |
| Jan 16, 2022, 9:27 AM | 2.0 | 9.7 km | 3.1 km |
| Jun 8, 2022, 5:12 PM | 2.7 | 9.4 km | 2.6 km |
| Jun 10, 2022, 5:01 AM | 2.4 | 9.3 km | 3.5 km |
| Jun 14, 2022, 1:10 AM | 2.2 | 6.2 km | 4.6 km |
| Jun 18, 2022, 7:43 AM | 3.2 | 1.1 km | 3.1 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 tx2022gbcu, 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/tx2022gbcu, documented in the API reference.