EARTHQUAKES · WILSON AREA · TX2024DIJP
Magnitude 4.5 3 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 12:32:52 AM Central · 2024-02-17 06:32:52 UTC
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake 3 km SSW of Falls City, Texas on February 17, 2024 at 12:32 AM Central, 7.2 km deep, in the Wilson County area.
It is one of 185 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 17 of them in the thirty days before it; this is the largest of them.
7 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 4.6 km away and operated by Rio-Tex, Inc; together they hold 94,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
1 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 12,460 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M4.5
- ML, reviewed
- 7.2
- km deep · 23,786 ft
- 17
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 185
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 7
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 574
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 28.9480, -98.0270
- County area
- Wilson County
- On a map
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- Catalog
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Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:34 AM | 3.7 | 1.2 km | 7.6 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:37 AM | 2.0 | 1.9 km | 7.3 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:27 AM | 2.0 | 1.2 km | 7.6 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:23 AM | 2.1 | 2 km | 8.5 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:20 AM | 4.3 | 0.4 km | 7.7 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:52 AM | 3.2 | 6.6 km | 8.1 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 12:54 AM | 2.1 | 3.3 km | 7.0 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 1:16 AM | 2.2 | 1.6 km | 7.4 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 1:58 AM | 2.0 | 1.2 km | 7.8 km |
| Feb 17, 2024, 2:15 AM | 2.1 | 3.8 km | 7.0 km |
| Feb 16, 2024, 9:49 PM | 3.9 | 0.3 km | 7.8 km |
| Feb 16, 2024, 7:53 PM | 2.3 | 1.8 km | 6.7 km |
Largest nearby on record: M4.3 on Feb 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. 1 of these report daily to TexNet: 12.5K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
| Well | Operator | UIC no. | Distance | Permitted, bbl/d | Injection zone, ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurer, Boone #2 | Rio-Tex, Inc | 000092627 | 4.6 km | 5,000 | 4,281–5,006 |
| Hysaw-Hobson #3A | Jaybird Operating, LLC | 000077612 | 5.7 km | 3,000 | 4,007–4,009 |
| Falls City Unit #135 | Britanco, L.L.C | 000001611 | 6.7 km | 5,000 | 5,530–5,658 |
| Burris SWD #1 | CWR Managment LLC | 000105599 | 7.4 km | 30,000 | 5,800–6,800 |
| Olinick, Jerome #151 | Britanco, L.L.C | 000001614 | 7.5 km | 6,000 | 1,600–1,675 |
| Karnes City-Kaleb Brewer #1 | CWR Managment LLC | 000104218 | 9.4 km | 20,000 | 6,387–7,850 |
| Falls City SWD #1 | Pilot Water Solutions SWD LLC | 000102146 | 9.8 km | 25,000 | 6,500–7,500 |
Disposal in Wilson County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
TexNet catalog event tx2024dijp, as published by the 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/tx2024dijp, documented in the API reference.