EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · US1000E2L2
Magnitude 2.4 1 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
Thursday, May 10, 2018, 10:44:57 PM Central · 2018-05-11 03:44:57 UTC
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake 1 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas on May 10, 2018 at 10:44 PM Central, 5.0 km deep, in the Ward County area.
It is one of 64 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, none in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.0.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.5 km away and operated by Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC; together they hold 306,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.4
- ML, reviewed
- 5.0
- km deep · 16,405 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 64
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 719
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.3589, -103.5299
- County area
- Ward County
- On a map
- Google Maps ↗
- Catalog
- USGS event page ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2018, 10:42 PM | 2.5 | 9.9 km | 7.1 km |
| Jun 28, 2018, 1:51 AM | 2.8 | 9.7 km | 5.0 km |
| Jul 13, 2018, 4:33 AM | 2.9 | 3.7 km | 5.0 km |
| Jul 13, 2018, 5:45 AM | 2.7 | 5.3 km | 2.9 km |
| Sep 14, 2018, 3:30 AM | 2.6 | 3.9 km | 2.3 km |
| Oct 26, 2018, 2:31 PM | 2.9 | 4.6 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 29, 2017, 11:16 PM | 2.0 | 6.9 km | 5.0 km |
| Aug 30, 2017, 3:16 PM | 2.2 | 8 km | 1.8 km |
| Jan 20, 2019, 9:40 AM | 2.7 | 8.9 km | 5.0 km |
| Jan 29, 2019, 6:32 AM | 2.6 | 5.5 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 2, 2019, 5:07 AM | 2.6 | 8.3 km | 2.4 km |
| Feb 15, 2019, 9:52 PM | 2.3 | 6.9 km | 5.0 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.0 on Jun 25, 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.
Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event us1000e2l2 from the USGS earthquake catalog, located by the network its id names 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/us1000e2l2, documented in the API reference.