EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · TX2022PPBC
Magnitude 2.2 5 km E of Lindsay, Texas
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 11:37:58 AM Central · 2022-08-10 16:37:58 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 5 km E of Lindsay, Texas on August 10, 2022 at 11:37 AM Central, 3.3 km deep, in the Ward County area.
It is one of 61 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, none in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.0.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.3 km away and operated by Noble Energy Inc; together they hold 260,400 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
2 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 7,755 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.2
- ML, reviewed
- 3.3
- km deep · 10,839 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 61
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 700
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.3737, -103.4814
- County area
- Ward 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2022, 3:36 PM | 2.3 | 2.1 km | 1.4 km |
| Jun 28, 2022, 4:31 PM | 2.3 | 7.2 km | 5.5 km |
| Jun 25, 2022, 12:05 PM | 3.0 | 6.9 km | 7.9 km |
| Jun 25, 2022, 5:35 AM | 2.1 | 7.8 km | 7.3 km |
| Oct 7, 2022, 1:09 PM | 2.3 | 7.7 km | 3.8 km |
| Oct 25, 2022, 10:26 PM | 2.1 | 9 km | 6.0 km |
| Nov 4, 2022, 9:32 PM | 2.1 | 7.9 km | 1.7 km |
| May 10, 2022, 4:28 PM | 2.4 | 4.2 km | 4.8 km |
| Nov 20, 2022, 10:21 PM | 2.3 | 0.1 km | 2.5 km |
| Apr 7, 2022, 6:50 AM | 2.0 | 7.5 km | 4.0 km |
| Dec 18, 2022, 1:41 PM | 2.3 | 1.4 km | 5.5 km |
| Dec 19, 2022, 12:36 PM | 2.0 | 8.9 km | -0.8 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.0 on Jun 25, 2022.
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. 2 of these report daily to TexNet: 7.76K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2022ppbc 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/tx2022ppbc, documented in the API reference.