EARTHQUAKES · SCURRY AREA · TX2023IFPT
Magnitude 2.6 16 km N of Snyder, Texas
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 4:55:45 PM Central · 2023-04-27 21:55:45 UTC
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake 16 km N of Snyder, Texas on April 27, 2023 at 4:55 PM Central, 5.4 km deep, in the Scurry County area.
It is one of 102 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 0 km away and operated by Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC; together they hold 226,400 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.6
- ML, reviewed
- 5.4
- km deep · 17,812 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 102
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 216
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8656, -100.9349
- County area
- Scurry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2023, 5:26 AM | 2.0 | 6.7 km | 4.8 km |
| Jun 26, 2023, 6:57 AM | 2.2 | 4.7 km | 4.4 km |
| Jun 27, 2023, 6:46 PM | 3.3 | 2.8 km | 4.1 km |
| Jun 28, 2023, 2:20 PM | 2.0 | 3.8 km | 6.2 km |
| Feb 19, 2023, 10:47 AM | 2.0 | 7 km | 5.3 km |
| Feb 19, 2023, 10:45 AM | 2.2 | 6.7 km | 5.2 km |
| Jul 4, 2023, 1:35 AM | 2.1 | 3.8 km | 5.7 km |
| Feb 11, 2023, 4:29 PM | 2.4 | 2.5 km | 5.6 km |
| Feb 6, 2023, 8:56 AM | 3.0 | 1.5 km | 5.6 km |
| Jul 17, 2023, 6:32 AM | 2.4 | 4.6 km | 0.0 km |
| Jul 17, 2023, 9:02 AM | 2.3 | 4.4 km | 5.2 km |
| Jul 22, 2023, 4:20 PM | 3.4 | 3 km | 4.3 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 Scurry County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2023ifpt 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/tx2023ifpt, documented in the API reference.