EARTHQUAKES · SCURRY AREA · US2000CP8R
Magnitude 2.7 15 km N of Snyder, Texas
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:28:22 AM Central · 2018-01-25 13:28:22 UTC
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake 15 km N of Snyder, Texas on January 25, 2018 at 7:28 AM Central, 4.0 km deep, in the Scurry County area.
It is one of 95 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, none in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M4.0.
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 212,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.7
- MB_LG, reviewed
- 4.0
- km deep · 13,091 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 95
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 242
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8533, -100.9216
- County area
- Scurry County
- On a map
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- Catalog
- USGS event page ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2018, 11:37 PM | 2.7 | 3.1 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 14, 2018, 9:53 AM | 2.6 | 2.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 22, 2018, 4:17 AM | 2.9 | 8.4 km | 4.7 km |
| Dec 6, 2017, 11:03 PM | 2.1 | 9.3 km | 2.8 km |
| Jun 15, 2018, 12:22 AM | 2.5 | 6.7 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 6, 2017, 3:02 AM | 2.8 | 5.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 5, 2017, 4:37 PM | 2.5 | 2.5 km | 1.5 km |
| Aug 13, 2017, 9:45 AM | 2.7 | 4.3 km | 4.7 km |
| Aug 5, 2018, 3:17 PM | 2.9 | 3.5 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 16, 2018, 11:56 AM | 2.8 | 2.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 28, 2018, 9:21 AM | 3.1 | 5.8 km | 4.9 km |
| Oct 31, 2018, 6:50 PM | 3.0 | 3.8 km | 5.0 km |
Largest nearby on record: M4.0 on Sep 30, 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 us2000cp8r 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/us2000cp8r, documented in the API reference.