EARTHQUAKES · GONZALES AREA · TX2024AAHH
Magnitude 3.0 18 km S of Gonzales, Texas
Sunday, December 31, 2023, 9:39:24 PM Central · 2024-01-01 03:39:24 UTC
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake 18 km S of Gonzales, Texas on December 31, 2023 at 9:39 PM Central, 3.4 km deep, in the Gonzales County area.
It is one of 57 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 6 of them in the thirty days before it; this is the largest of them.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 5 km away and operated by Trisun Energy Services LLC; together they hold 150,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M3.0
- ML, reviewed
- 3.4
- km deep · 11,103 ft
- 6
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 57
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 399
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 29.3350, -97.4410
- County area
- Gonzales 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2023, 8:11 PM | 2.0 | 5.4 km | 8.6 km |
| Dec 31, 2023, 3:57 PM | 2.1 | 6.5 km | 7.3 km |
| Dec 29, 2023, 3:45 PM | 2.2 | 2.1 km | 6.2 km |
| Dec 29, 2023, 3:10 PM | 2.3 | 1.8 km | 6.1 km |
| Dec 28, 2023, 4:39 PM | 2.0 | 2 km | 6.6 km |
| Dec 28, 2023, 9:44 AM | 2.5 | 2.3 km | 7.8 km |
| Sep 25, 2023, 2:01 PM | 2.0 | 6.4 km | 3.0 km |
| Aug 2, 2023, 7:12 AM | 2.2 | 6.4 km | 5.9 km |
| Jul 22, 2023, 8:16 AM | 2.0 | 7.7 km | 8.0 km |
| Jul 21, 2023, 10:27 PM | 2.0 | 8.1 km | 8.5 km |
| Jul 21, 2023, 9:18 PM | 2.6 | 7.5 km | 7.2 km |
| Jul 20, 2023, 9:02 AM | 2.1 | 7.4 km | 7.1 km |
Largest nearby on record: M2.8 on Jun 16, 2022.
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 Gonzales County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2024aahh 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/tx2024aahh, documented in the API reference.