EARTHQUAKES · DAWSON AREA · TX2023EFLT
Magnitude 2.2 26 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 3:45:47 PM Central · 2023-03-01 21:45:47 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 26 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas on March 1, 2023 at 3:45 PM Central, 5.8 km deep, in the Dawson County area.
It is one of 112 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M4.2.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 3 km away and operated by Diamondback E&P LLC; together they hold 257,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
24 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 276,116 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.2
- ML, reviewed
- 5.8
- km deep · 19,176 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 112
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 546
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.4911, -102.0056
- County area
- Dawson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2023, 5:47 PM | 3.1 | 3.5 km | 9.3 km |
| Mar 28, 2023, 3:25 AM | 2.3 | 3 km | 9.1 km |
| Feb 2, 2023, 9:34 PM | 2.3 | 6.7 km | 10.5 km |
| Apr 15, 2023, 10:59 PM | 2.1 | 5.5 km | 8.6 km |
| Jan 10, 2023, 7:09 AM | 2.6 | 2.2 km | 9.1 km |
| Dec 2, 2022, 8:28 AM | 3.0 | 9.3 km | 9.8 km |
| Nov 25, 2022, 5:27 AM | 2.6 | 9.2 km | 9.3 km |
| Jul 12, 2023, 6:37 AM | 2.6 | 9.2 km | 9.3 km |
| Oct 10, 2022, 4:49 PM | 2.2 | 7.3 km | 8.0 km |
| Oct 8, 2022, 1:43 PM | 2.0 | 6.3 km | 8.3 km |
| Oct 8, 2022, 3:07 AM | 2.1 | 6.4 km | 8.5 km |
| Oct 2, 2022, 8:53 PM | 2.4 | 5.7 km | 11.9 km |
Largest nearby on record: M4.2 on Nov 23, 2023.
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. 24 of these report daily to TexNet: 276K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Dawson County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2023eflt 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/tx2023eflt, documented in the API reference.