EARTHQUAKES · LOVING AREA · TX2022WMMY
Magnitude 2.4 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 3:57:42 PM Central · 2022-11-16 21:57:42 UTC
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas on November 16, 2022 at 3:57 PM Central, 6.3 km deep, in the Loving County area.
It is one of 1,197 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 19 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M5.4.
14 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.2 km away and operated by Waterbridge Stateline LLC; together they hold 400,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
15 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 108,531 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.4
- ML, reviewed
- 6.3
- km deep · 20,624 ft
- 19
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 1,197
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 14
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 363
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.6102, -103.9712
- County area
- Loving 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2022, 4:01 PM | 2.6 | 3.2 km | 5.9 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:53 PM | 2.0 | 1.5 km | 7.7 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:52 PM | 2.5 | 2.3 km | 8.7 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 4:05 PM | 2.2 | 3.3 km | 5.7 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:47 PM | 2.0 | 2.8 km | 6.6 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:46 PM | 2.6 | 0.7 km | 8.7 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:44 PM | 2.0 | 3.3 km | 4.9 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:40 PM | 3.3 | 1 km | 5.7 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:39 PM | 2.8 | 3.2 km | 4.8 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 4:16 PM | 2.1 | 1.1 km | 5.0 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:36 PM | 2.6 | 3.2 km | 6.6 km |
| Nov 16, 2022, 3:32 PM | 5.4 | 3.9 km | 6.9 km |
Largest nearby on record: M5.4 on Nov 16, 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. 15 of these report daily to TexNet: 109K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Loving County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
TexNet catalog event tx2022wmmy, 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/tx2022wmmy, documented in the API reference.