EARTHQUAKES · WINKLER AREA · TX2024IDPS
Magnitude 3.9 20 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 2:36:44 PM Central · 2024-04-25 19:36:44 UTC
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake 20 km SW of Jal, New Mexico on April 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM Central, 7.8 km deep, in the Winkler County area.
It is one of 192 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 15 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 3.1 km away and operated by Waterbridge Stateline LLC; together they hold 411,100 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
8 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 155,532 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M3.9
- ML, reviewed
- 7.8
- km deep · 25,733 ft
- 15
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 192
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 443
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.9680, -103.3320
- County area
- Winkler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2024, 3:32 PM | 3.8 | 0.7 km | 8.7 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 3:49 PM | 2.4 | 0.3 km | 8.3 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 4:36 PM | 2.2 | 1.4 km | 7.0 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 4:42 PM | 2.2 | 1.3 km | 7.5 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 4:48 PM | 2.2 | 0.8 km | 7.3 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 5:23 PM | 2.0 | 1 km | 7.3 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 11:44 AM | 2.0 | 0.8 km | 6.8 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 5:39 PM | 2.4 | 1.3 km | 6.1 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 5:41 PM | 2.1 | 0.6 km | 6.6 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 6:01 PM | 2.0 | 0.6 km | 6.8 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 6:23 PM | 3.1 | 0.5 km | 8.2 km |
| Apr 25, 2024, 6:34 PM | 2.7 | 0.8 km | 8.4 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.8 on Apr 25, 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. 8 of these report daily to TexNet: 156K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Winkler County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2024idps 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/tx2024idps, documented in the API reference.