EARTHQUAKES · HOWARD AREA · TX2024ALJP
Magnitude 2.5 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
Saturday, January 6, 2024, 11:19:13 PM Central · 2024-01-07 05:19:13 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas on January 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM Central, 5.3 km deep, in the Howard County area.
It is one of 79 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 3 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.9.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 2.6 km away and operated by DKL Water Gathering Permian, LLC; together they hold 407,880 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
44 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 243,277 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.5
- ML, reviewed
- 5.3
- km deep · 17,251 ft
- 3
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 79
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 1,530
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.3900, -101.6220
- County area
- Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2024, 12:49 AM | 3.1 | 0.3 km | 5.7 km |
| Jan 7, 2024, 6:26 PM | 2.1 | 0.9 km | 4.6 km |
| Dec 25, 2023, 5:31 AM | 2.0 | 8.2 km | 6.5 km |
| Dec 20, 2023, 8:30 AM | 2.5 | 1 km | 6.3 km |
| Dec 20, 2023, 8:19 AM | 3.5 | 1.3 km | 6.3 km |
| Nov 2, 2023, 2:45 PM | 2.4 | 4 km | 4.0 km |
| Nov 2, 2023, 2:39 PM | 3.3 | 3.5 km | 4.5 km |
| Oct 8, 2023, 2:24 AM | 2.4 | 8.1 km | 8.2 km |
| Jun 1, 2024, 8:01 AM | 2.2 | 0.9 km | 7.0 km |
| Jun 9, 2024, 11:30 PM | 2.4 | 8.1 km | 5.9 km |
| Jul 31, 2023, 4:25 AM | 3.5 | 3.9 km | 5.8 km |
| Jul 29, 2023, 8:08 PM | 2.3 | 3.6 km | 7.1 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.9 on Jun 6, 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. 44 of these report daily to TexNet: 243K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Howard County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2024aljp 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.
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