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EARTHQUAKES · MARTIN AREA · TX2024SHFA

Magnitude 2.0 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas

Monday, September 16, 2024, 9:07:02 PM Central · 2024-09-17 02:07:02 UTC

A magnitude 2.0 earthquake 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas on September 16, 2024 at 9:07 PM Central, 8.8 km deep, in the Martin County area.

It is one of 228 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 10 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 3 km away and operated by Deep Blue Operating I LLC; together they hold 365,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.

27 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 177,341 barrels a day in August 2026.

M2.0
ML, reviewed
8.8
km deep · 28,917 ft
10
M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
228
M2+ within 10 km, all time
15
active injection wells within 10 km
1,146
permitted wells within 10 km

Location

Epicenter
32.4120, -102.0440
County area
Martin 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.

WhenMagDistanceDepth
Sep 16, 2024, 7:53 PM2.91.1 km6.9 km
Sep 16, 2024, 7:49 PM5.11.2 km6.1 km
Sep 17, 2024, 12:46 AM2.90.6 km8.5 km
Sep 17, 2024, 5:22 AM2.30.9 km8.2 km
Sep 18, 2024, 3:42 AM2.00.7 km7.7 km
Sep 19, 2024, 11:42 AM2.02.2 km8.8 km
Sep 19, 2024, 5:09 PM2.11.6 km8.6 km
Sep 13, 2024, 5:23 PM2.10.9 km8.8 km
Sep 20, 2024, 2:17 AM2.52 km8.7 km
Sep 13, 2024, 2:11 PM2.31.3 km8.8 km
Sep 13, 2024, 3:00 AM2.10.7 km8.7 km
Sep 21, 2024, 4:25 AM2.71.1 km5.9 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. 27 of these report daily to TexNet: 177K bbl/d in Aug 2026.

WellOperatorUIC no.DistancePermitted, bbl/dInjection zone, ft
Jones-Holton SWD #2WDDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001055673 km20,0004,200–5,700
Jones-Holton D #5DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001165213.4 km40,00011,000–14,000
Jones-Holton SWD #1WDDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001055275.7 km20,0004,200–5,632
Jones-Holton D #4DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001126426 km20,00011,000–14,000
Corsica SWD 2 #2Stonehill Martin, LLC0001260906.2 km20,0004,200–5,228
Jones-Holton SWD #25DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001123756.3 km20,0004,200–5,600
Breedlove Ursa #2DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001246517.2 km30,0003,988–5,308
Hecker #1DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001139427.4 km20,00011,000–14,000
Cox 11 SWD #1Ovintiv USA Inc.0001035817.5 km30,0004,600–5,204
Hecker #2DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001163827.8 km20,00011,000–14,000
Jones-Holton SWD #3DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001125657.9 km30,0004,200–6,000
Hecker SWD #2451SWDeep Blue Operating I LLC0001017928.1 km25,0004,100–5,545
O'Neal #1DDiamondback E&P LLC0000107228.1 km10,0004,250–4,800
Jones 130 #1DDeep Blue Operating I LLC0000992088.3 km30,0004,275–12,700
Poe SWD #D 2Deep Blue Operating I LLC0001163138.4 km30,0003,731–5,319

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About this data

Event tx2024shfa 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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