EARTHQUAKES · JACK AREA · TX2023UALE
Magnitude 2.2 10 km S of Jacksboro, Texas
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 3:22:09 PM Central · 2023-10-12 20:22:09 UTC
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake 10 km S of Jacksboro, Texas on October 12, 2023 at 3:22 PM Central, 3.9 km deep, in the Jack County area.
No other M2+ events have been located within 10 km of this spot.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.6 km away and operated by Quest Petroleum Company; together they hold 126,600 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.2
- ML(TEXNE, reviewed
- 3.9
- km deep · 12,758 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 163
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 33.1230, -98.1710
- County area
- Jack County
- On a map
- Google Maps ↗
- Catalog
- USGS event page ↗ · TexNet catalog ↗
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 Jack County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2023uale 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/tx2023uale, documented in the API reference.