EARTHQUAKES · MCMULLEN AREA · TX2024SPNA
Magnitude 2.9 17 km NE of Tilden, Texas
Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:16:17 AM Central · 2024-09-21 15:16:17 UTC
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake 17 km NE of Tilden, Texas on September 21, 2024 at 10:16 AM Central, 6.5 km deep, in the McMullen County area.
It is one of 19 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 5 of them in the thirty days before it; this is the largest of them.
4 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 3.5 km away and operated by Petrotx Operating, LLC; together they hold 6,300 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.9
- ML, reviewed
- 6.5
- km deep · 21,273 ft
- 5
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 19
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 4
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 244
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 28.5580, -98.4010
- County area
- McMullen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2024, 2:14 AM | 2.1 | 1 km | 6.4 km |
| Sep 14, 2024, 1:34 AM | 2.0 | 0.9 km | 6.7 km |
| Sep 13, 2024, 11:37 PM | 2.3 | 2 km | 4.1 km |
| Sep 7, 2024, 7:45 AM | 2.6 | 0.4 km | 6.4 km |
| Sep 6, 2024, 2:05 PM | 2.1 | 0.4 km | 6.7 km |
| Sep 3, 2024, 4:22 PM | 2.0 | 0.4 km | 6.3 km |
| Nov 4, 2024, 8:44 PM | 2.2 | 1.8 km | 6.5 km |
| Nov 8, 2024, 6:49 PM | 2.1 | 1.4 km | 6.6 km |
| Nov 13, 2023, 5:11 AM | 2.0 | 0.5 km | 4.0 km |
| Nov 13, 2023, 2:14 AM | 2.0 | 1.8 km | 5.4 km |
| Nov 4, 2023, 12:33 PM | 2.5 | 0.1 km | 6.5 km |
| Feb 26, 2026, 6:29 PM | 2.1 | 4.3 km | 7.5 km |
Largest nearby on record: M2.6 on Sep 7, 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.
| Well | Operator | UIC no. | Distance | Permitted, bbl/d | Injection zone, ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrill #1R | Petrotx Operating, LLC | 000095974 | 3.5 km | 5,000 | 6,284–6,346 |
| Peeler, Graves #4 | Thalmann Oilfield | 000095555 | 5.9 km | 300 | 6,446–6,456 |
| Lark #23 | Texas Secondary Oil Corporation | 000105257 | 7.6 km | 500 | 820–1,114 |
| Peeler #D 1 | Hawthorn Energy Partners, LLC | 000096133 | 9.7 km | 500 | 5,376–5,548 |
Disposal in McMullen County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2024spna 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/tx2024spna, documented in the API reference.