EARTHQUAKES · KENT AREA · TX2023BPCG
Magnitude 2.2 18 km N of Snyder, Texas
Monday, January 23, 2023, 5:42:09 AM Central · 2023-01-23 11:42:09 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 18 km N of Snyder, Texas on January 23, 2023 at 5:42 AM Central, 6.8 km deep, in the Kent County area.
It is one of 109 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M4.0.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 1.5 km away and operated by Occidental Permian Ltd.; together they hold 152,300 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.2
- ML, reviewed
- 6.8
- km deep · 22,386 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 109
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 144
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8867, -100.9295
- County area
- Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2023, 12:53 PM | 2.2 | 6.4 km | 7.7 km |
| Feb 6, 2023, 8:56 AM | 3.0 | 0.9 km | 5.6 km |
| Feb 11, 2023, 4:29 PM | 2.4 | 0.4 km | 5.6 km |
| Feb 19, 2023, 10:45 AM | 2.2 | 4.6 km | 5.2 km |
| Feb 19, 2023, 10:47 AM | 2.0 | 4.9 km | 5.3 km |
| Dec 13, 2022, 11:49 AM | 2.4 | 4.8 km | 0.0 km |
| Dec 5, 2022, 5:27 PM | 2.1 | 6 km | 7.7 km |
| Apr 4, 2023, 5:26 AM | 2.0 | 4.6 km | 4.8 km |
| Apr 27, 2023, 4:55 PM | 2.6 | 2.4 km | 5.4 km |
| Sep 27, 2022, 11:06 AM | 2.7 | 9 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 9, 2022, 2:30 PM | 2.0 | 2.5 km | 7.7 km |
| Jun 26, 2023, 6:57 AM | 2.2 | 6.8 km | 4.4 km |
Largest nearby on record: M4.0 on Sep 30, 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 Kent County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2023bpcg 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/tx2023bpcg, documented in the API reference.