EARTHQUAKES · MARTIN AREA · TX2024BLVB
Magnitude 3.3 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
Sunday, January 21, 2024, 10:39:17 AM Central · 2024-01-21 16:39:17 UTC
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas on January 21, 2024 at 10:39 AM Central, 8.8 km deep, in the Martin County area.
It is one of 224 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 4 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 2.2 km away and operated by Deep Blue Operating I LLC; together they hold 375,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
28 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 203,801 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M3.3
- ML, reviewed
- 8.8
- km deep · 28,805 ft
- 4
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 224
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 1,151
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.4050, -102.0400
- County area
- Martin County
- On a map
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- 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 21, 2024, 5:56 AM | 2.1 | 0.4 km | 8.3 km |
| Jan 21, 2024, 6:03 PM | 3.4 | 0 km | 8.5 km |
| Jan 21, 2024, 8:08 PM | 3.0 | 1.2 km | 9.0 km |
| Jan 22, 2024, 6:05 AM | 2.0 | 0.7 km | 9.0 km |
| Jan 22, 2024, 8:01 AM | 2.4 | 0.7 km | 11.3 km |
| Jan 19, 2024, 11:12 AM | 2.5 | 1 km | 9.4 km |
| Jan 18, 2024, 5:37 AM | 2.2 | 1.6 km | 9.0 km |
| Jan 26, 2024, 8:09 PM | 2.7 | 1 km | 6.2 km |
| Feb 3, 2024, 12:57 AM | 2.3 | 9.3 km | 8.9 km |
| Feb 3, 2024, 7:47 AM | 2.2 | 1.1 km | 7.4 km |
| Feb 3, 2024, 9:51 AM | 2.6 | 1.3 km | 8.3 km |
| Jan 1, 2024, 1:13 AM | 2.1 | 5.2 km | 9.9 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. 28 of these report daily to TexNet: 204K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Martin County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2024blvb 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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