EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · TX2025DJHE
Magnitude 2.0 19 km S of Barstow, Texas
Monday, February 17, 2025, 12:27:06 PM Central · 2025-02-17 18:27:06 UTC
A magnitude 2.0 earthquake 19 km S of Barstow, Texas on February 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM Central, 4.1 km deep, in the Ward County area.
It is one of 50 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 10 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 0.4 km away and operated by Permian Res Oper, LLC; together they hold 355,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
10 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 22,211 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.0
- ML, reviewed
- 4.1
- km deep · 13,453 ft
- 10
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 50
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 545
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.2870, -103.3540
- County area
- Ward County
- On a map
- OpenStreetMap ↗
- Catalog
- TexNet earthquake catalog ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2025, 1:21 AM | 2.1 | 2.3 km | 4.9 km |
| Jan 30, 2025, 4:51 PM | 2.6 | 4 km | 3.1 km |
| Jan 28, 2025, 9:24 AM | 2.6 | 3.1 km | 5.8 km |
| Jan 27, 2025, 9:03 PM | 2.0 | 4.4 km | 2.3 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 10:57 PM | 2.3 | 1.9 km | 1.5 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 11:07 AM | 3.0 | 2.7 km | 7.0 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 9:35 AM | 2.1 | 3.2 km | 1.9 km |
| Jan 26, 2025, 9:09 AM | 2.2 | 2.8 km | 2.4 km |
| Jan 25, 2025, 10:22 PM | 2.5 | 3.2 km | 1.0 km |
| Jan 25, 2025, 8:56 AM | 2.1 | 1.9 km | 1.0 km |
| Jan 16, 2025, 12:42 AM | 2.1 | 0.8 km | 2.8 km |
| Dec 2, 2024, 5:19 AM | 2.4 | 5.2 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. 10 of these report daily to TexNet: 22.2K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
TexNet catalog event tx2025djhe, 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.
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