EARTHQUAKES · SCURRY AREA · TX2022PIUV
Magnitude 2.2 13 km N of Snyder, Texas
Sunday, August 7, 2022, 1:38:56 AM Central · 2022-08-07 06:38:56 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 13 km N of Snyder, Texas on August 7, 2022 at 1:38 AM Central, 9.0 km deep, in the Scurry County area.
It is one of 87 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.8.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.2 km away and operated by Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC; together they hold 265,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.2
- ML, reviewed
- 9.0
- km deep · 29,607 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 87
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 303
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8372, -100.9381
- County area
- Scurry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2022, 5:19 AM | 2.5 | 2.2 km | 4.5 km |
| Aug 20, 2022, 4:44 AM | 2.8 | 0.9 km | 5.6 km |
| Aug 21, 2022, 8:45 AM | 3.2 | 0.4 km | 3.3 km |
| Sep 9, 2022, 2:30 PM | 2.0 | 7.1 km | 7.7 km |
| Jun 15, 2022, 11:24 AM | 2.2 | 0.6 km | 3.8 km |
| Jun 15, 2022, 2:26 AM | 2.5 | 1.7 km | 3.8 km |
| Jun 15, 2022, 2:14 AM | 3.1 | 1.1 km | 3.8 km |
| Jun 3, 2022, 2:34 PM | 2.2 | 9.2 km | 3.8 km |
| Dec 13, 2022, 11:49 AM | 2.4 | 5.6 km | 0.0 km |
| Mar 15, 2022, 12:16 PM | 2.6 | 7.9 km | 4.2 km |
| Jan 22, 2023, 12:53 PM | 2.2 | 3.7 km | 7.7 km |
| Jan 23, 2023, 5:42 AM | 2.2 | 5.6 km | 6.8 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.8 on Oct 1, 2019.
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 Scurry County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2022piuv 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/tx2022piuv, documented in the API reference.