EARTHQUAKES · DAWSON AREA · TX2023FDHI
Magnitude 3.1 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 5:47:32 PM Central · 2023-03-14 22:47:32 UTC
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas on March 14, 2023 at 5:47 PM Central, 9.3 km deep, in the Dawson County area.
It is one of 183 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M5.1.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 2.6 km away and operated by Diamondback E&P LLC; together they hold 168,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
23 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 241,630 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M3.1
- ML, reviewed
- 9.3
- km deep · 30,359 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 183
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 745
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.4640, -102.0250
- 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 1, 2023, 3:45 PM | 2.2 | 3.5 km | 5.8 km |
| Mar 28, 2023, 3:25 AM | 2.3 | 0.7 km | 9.1 km |
| Apr 6, 2023, 9:00 PM | 2.1 | 9.2 km | 8.4 km |
| Feb 12, 2023, 10:33 AM | 2.0 | 8.7 km | 9.3 km |
| Apr 15, 2023, 10:59 PM | 2.1 | 3.3 km | 8.6 km |
| Feb 7, 2023, 7:46 PM | 2.0 | 9.3 km | 10.8 km |
| Feb 2, 2023, 9:34 PM | 2.3 | 3.4 km | 10.5 km |
| May 2, 2023, 6:10 PM | 2.0 | 9 km | 11.2 km |
| Jan 10, 2023, 7:09 AM | 2.6 | 1.4 km | 9.1 km |
| Jun 7, 2023, 8:03 PM | 2.6 | 9.7 km | 1.9 km |
| Jun 8, 2023, 11:25 AM | 2.0 | 9.4 km | 10.9 km |
| Jun 9, 2023, 9:33 PM | 2.4 | 9.4 km | 10.6 km |
Largest nearby on record: M5.1 on Sep 17, 2024.
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. 23 of these report daily to TexNet: 242K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Dawson County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2023fdhi 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/tx2023fdhi, documented in the API reference.