EARTHQUAKES · REEVES AREA · TX2022PYWV
Magnitude 2.1 25 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
Monday, August 15, 2022, 8:50:04 PM Central · 2022-08-16 01:50:04 UTC
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake 25 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas on August 15, 2022 at 8:50 PM Central, 3.2 km deep, in the Reeves County area.
It is one of 185 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 3 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 1.3 km away and operated by Rattler Midstream Operating LLC; together they hold 201,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
3 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 24,535 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.1
- ML, reviewed
- 3.2
- km deep · 10,418 ft
- 3
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 185
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 257
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.0955, -103.2689
- County area
- Reeves 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 15, 2022, 6:45 PM | 2.9 | 9.7 km | 4.4 km |
| Aug 15, 2022, 5:31 PM | 2.3 | 4.2 km | 5.4 km |
| Aug 16, 2022, 1:51 AM | 2.0 | 5.3 km | 3.4 km |
| Jul 27, 2022, 2:57 PM | 2.0 | 1.4 km | 4.9 km |
| Jul 10, 2022, 1:50 PM | 2.5 | 9.9 km | 4.9 km |
| Jul 9, 2022, 7:41 AM | 2.0 | 5.9 km | 1.3 km |
| Jul 8, 2022, 8:01 PM | 2.0 | 4.6 km | 5.4 km |
| Jun 28, 2022, 11:02 AM | 2.4 | 1.9 km | 2.8 km |
| Jun 18, 2022, 7:43 AM | 3.2 | 2.5 km | 3.1 km |
| Jun 14, 2022, 1:10 AM | 2.2 | 4 km | 4.6 km |
| Jun 10, 2022, 5:01 AM | 2.4 | 6.3 km | 3.5 km |
| Jun 8, 2022, 5:12 PM | 2.7 | 6.1 km | 2.6 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. 3 of these report daily to TexNet: 24.5K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Reeves County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2022pywv 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/tx2022pywv, documented in the API reference.