EARTHQUAKES · MIDLAND AREA · TX2025RYDZLL
Magnitude 2.6 13 km NNW of Midland, Texas
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 5:45:37 PM Central · 2025-09-11 22:45:37 UTC
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake 13 km NNW of Midland, Texas on September 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM Central, 6.6 km deep, in the Midland County area.
It is one of 144 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 2 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M5.2.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 1.7 km away and operated by Occidental Permian Ltd.; together they hold 163,999 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
19 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 29,077 barrels a day in September 2026.
- M2.6
- ML, reviewed
- 6.6
- km deep · 21,628 ft
- 2
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 144
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 1,129
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.1080, -102.1440
- County area
- Midland 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 11, 2025, 2:04 PM | 2.1 | 0.6 km | 6.9 km |
| Sep 11, 2025, 2:00 PM | 2.7 | 1 km | 7.0 km |
| Sep 14, 2025, 12:18 PM | 2.4 | 1.3 km | 7.3 km |
| Sep 14, 2025, 4:03 PM | 2.5 | 2 km | 8.2 km |
| Sep 16, 2025, 9:09 PM | 2.0 | 9.8 km | 8.0 km |
| Sep 25, 2025, 1:49 PM | 2.0 | 2.7 km | 6.9 km |
| Aug 7, 2025, 6:09 PM | 2.1 | 6.5 km | 7.7 km |
| Aug 6, 2025, 2:23 PM | 2.6 | 7.1 km | 7.1 km |
| Aug 1, 2025, 6:16 AM | 2.7 | 1.7 km | 8.3 km |
| Aug 1, 2025, 1:32 AM | 2.4 | 6.4 km | 8.8 km |
| Jul 31, 2025, 8:36 PM | 2.0 | 2 km | 8.3 km |
| Jul 21, 2025, 6:42 AM | 2.4 | 6.7 km | 8.4 km |
Largest nearby on record: M5.2 on Dec 16, 2022.
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. 19 of these report daily to TexNet: 29.1K bbl/d in Sep 2026.
Disposal in Midland County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2025rydzll 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/tx2025rydzll, documented in the API reference.