EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · TX2025BUAF
Magnitude 2.5 16 km S of Barstow, Texas
Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10:22:21 PM Central · 2025-01-26 04:22:21 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 16 km S of Barstow, Texas on January 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM Central, 1.0 km deep, in the Ward County area.
It is one of 48 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 2 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.2.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 3.5 km away and operated by Permian Resources Operating, LLC; together they hold 355,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
8 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 17,615 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.5
- ML, reviewed
- 1.0
- km deep · 3,192 ft
- 2
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 48
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 610
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.3150, -103.3610
- County area
- Ward 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2025, 9:09 AM | 2.2 | 5.8 km | 2.4 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 9:35 AM | 2.1 | 5.7 km | 1.9 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 11:07 AM | 3.0 | 5.6 km | 7.0 km |
| Jan 25, 2025, 8:56 AM | 2.1 | 1.3 km | 1.0 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 10:57 PM | 2.3 | 1.2 km | 1.5 km |
| Jan 27, 2025, 9:03 PM | 2.0 | 5.9 km | 2.3 km |
| Jan 28, 2025, 9:24 AM | 2.6 | 4.7 km | 5.8 km |
| Jan 30, 2025, 4:51 PM | 2.6 | 4.2 km | 3.1 km |
| Jan 16, 2025, 12:42 AM | 2.1 | 3.4 km | 2.8 km |
| Feb 12, 2025, 1:21 AM | 2.1 | 1.7 km | 4.9 km |
| Feb 17, 2025, 12:27 PM | 2.0 | 3.2 km | 4.1 km |
| Dec 2, 2024, 5:19 AM | 2.4 | 4.7 km | 4.2 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.2 on Sep 14, 2020.
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: 17.6K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2025buaf 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/tx2025buaf, documented in the API reference.