EARTHQUAKES · SCURRY AREA · US2000AGCU
Magnitude 2.5 12 km N of Snyder, Texas
Tuesday, September 5, 2017, 4:37:42 PM Central · 2017-09-05 21:37:42 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 12 km N of Snyder, Texas on September 5, 2017 at 4:37 PM Central, 1.5 km deep, in the Scurry County area.
It is one of 86 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 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 0.2 km away and operated by Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC; together they hold 225,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.5
- MB_LG, reviewed
- 1.5
- km deep · 4,889 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 86
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 280
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8313, -100.9240
- County area
- Scurry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2017, 3:02 AM | 2.8 | 6.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Aug 13, 2017, 9:45 AM | 2.7 | 6.5 km | 4.7 km |
| Jan 25, 2018, 7:28 AM | 2.7 | 2.5 km | 4.0 km |
| Jan 30, 2018, 11:37 PM | 2.7 | 2.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 14, 2018, 9:53 AM | 2.6 | 4.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Jun 15, 2018, 12:22 AM | 2.5 | 8.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Aug 5, 2018, 3:17 PM | 2.9 | 5.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 16, 2018, 11:56 AM | 2.8 | 4.5 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 28, 2018, 9:21 AM | 3.1 | 8.3 km | 4.9 km |
| Oct 31, 2018, 6:50 PM | 3.0 | 6.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 31, 2018, 7:52 PM | 2.4 | 4.9 km | 1.9 km |
| Jan 18, 2019, 4:20 AM | 2.8 | 9.2 km | 5.0 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.8 on Oct 1, 2019.
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 Scurry County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event us2000agcu 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/us2000agcu, documented in the API reference.