EARTHQUAKES · WILSON AREA · TX2025DVTM
Magnitude 2.1 18 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
Monday, February 24, 2025, 8:07:40 AM Central · 2025-02-24 14:07:40 UTC
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake 18 km WSW of Falls City, Texas on February 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM Central, 7.6 km deep, in the Wilson County area.
It is one of 136 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 32 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.8.
3 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 2.3 km away and operated by RBR Oper, Inc; together they hold 50,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.1
- ML, reviewed
- 7.6
- km deep · 24,852 ft
- 32
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 136
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 3
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 226
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 28.9240, -98.1960
- County area
- Wilson 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 24, 2025, 7:32 AM | 2.3 | 0.6 km | 7.5 km |
| Feb 24, 2025, 3:45 AM | 2.4 | 0.2 km | 6.8 km |
| Feb 24, 2025, 2:18 PM | 2.2 | 0.8 km | 7.4 km |
| Feb 24, 2025, 3:04 PM | 2.3 | 1.5 km | 7.3 km |
| Feb 23, 2025, 10:35 PM | 2.3 | 1.9 km | 7.3 km |
| Feb 23, 2025, 4:15 PM | 2.2 | 0.9 km | 7.4 km |
| Feb 23, 2025, 4:11 PM | 2.1 | 0.5 km | 6.3 km |
| Feb 23, 2025, 2:39 PM | 2.0 | 2.2 km | 7.1 km |
| Feb 25, 2025, 3:35 PM | 2.6 | 2.6 km | 7.7 km |
| Feb 22, 2025, 11:52 PM | 2.0 | 2.4 km | 6.7 km |
| Feb 22, 2025, 11:09 PM | 2.1 | 1.6 km | 6.1 km |
| Feb 22, 2025, 9:55 PM | 2.0 | 2.3 km | 5.7 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.8 on Jul 19, 2023.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holiday #1W | RBR Oper, Inc | 000099902 | 2.3 km | — | 2,720–2,810 |
| YO Ranch SWD #1 | Evx Oper LLC | 000108295 | 2.7 km | 25,000 | 10,000–11,000 |
| Gerold SWD #1 | Pilot Water Solutions SWD LLC | 000107012 | 9.8 km | 25,000 | 5,650–6,650 |
Disposal in Wilson County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
TexNet catalog event tx2025dvtm, 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.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/earthquakes/tx/events/tx2025dvtm, documented in the API reference.