EARTHQUAKES · GLASSCOCK AREA · TX2026OHMVLR
Magnitude 2.5 24 km SW of Garden City, Texas
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 4:07:22 AM Central · 2026-07-22 09:07:22 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 24 km SW of Garden City, Texas on July 22, 2026 at 4:07 AM Central, 7.4 km deep, in the Glasscock County area.
It is one of 47 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 3 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.8.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 3.2 km away and operated by Deep Blue Operating I LLC; together they hold 258,750 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
1 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 144 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.5
- ML, reviewed
- 7.4
- km deep · 24,271 ft
- 3
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 47
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 776
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.7240, -101.6860
- County area
- Glasscock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2026, 6:52 AM | 2.0 | 0.5 km | 7.5 km |
| Jul 17, 2026, 3:30 PM | 2.3 | 0.6 km | 7.5 km |
| Jul 16, 2026, 5:57 PM | 3.3 | 0.3 km | 7.1 km |
| Aug 1, 2026, 5:12 AM | 2.7 | 0.4 km | 7.3 km |
| Aug 1, 2026, 5:16 AM | 2.8 | 0.9 km | 8.3 km |
| Aug 1, 2026, 5:25 AM | 2.4 | 0.9 km | 8.0 km |
| Sep 5, 2026, 9:46 AM | 3.6 | 1.9 km | 6.8 km |
| Sep 8, 2026, 6:22 PM | 2.7 | 0.8 km | 6.4 km |
| Sep 8, 2026, 6:42 PM | 2.4 | 0.1 km | 8.7 km |
| Sep 10, 2026, 10:21 PM | 2.0 | 1 km | 2.9 km |
| Sep 10, 2026, 10:21 PM | 2.0 | 0.6 km | 8.7 km |
| Sep 24, 2026, 3:36 AM | 3.6 | 7.9 km | 5.5 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.8 on Aug 15, 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. 1 of these report daily to TexNet: 144 bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Glasscock County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event tx2026ohmvlr 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/tx2026ohmvlr, documented in the API reference.