EARTHQUAKES · SCURRY AREA · US2000HFHT
Magnitude 2.8 16 km N of Snyder, Texas
Sunday, September 16, 2018, 11:56:32 AM Central · 2018-09-16 16:56:32 UTC
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake 16 km N of Snyder, Texas on September 16, 2018 at 11:56 AM Central, 5.0 km deep, in the Scurry County area.
It is one of 106 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 0.5 km away and operated by Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC; together they hold 199,100 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.8
- MB_LG, reviewed
- 5.0
- km deep · 16,405 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 106
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 185
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8688, -100.9073
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2018, 5:31 AM | 2.4 | 8.6 km | 5.0 km |
| Aug 7, 2018, 5:02 AM | 2.5 | 9 km | 2.2 km |
| Aug 5, 2018, 3:17 PM | 2.9 | 1.4 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 28, 2018, 9:21 AM | 3.1 | 3.9 km | 4.9 km |
| Oct 31, 2018, 6:50 PM | 3.0 | 2.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 31, 2018, 7:52 PM | 2.4 | 0.5 km | 1.9 km |
| Jun 15, 2018, 12:22 AM | 2.5 | 7.1 km | 5.0 km |
| Dec 25, 2018, 10:23 PM | 3.3 | 9.5 km | 1.1 km |
| Jan 18, 2019, 4:20 AM | 2.8 | 4.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Apr 29, 2018, 3:28 AM | 2.8 | 9.6 km | 5.0 km |
| Mar 23, 2019, 10:24 PM | 2.2 | 7 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 22, 2018, 4:17 AM | 2.9 | 6.2 km | 4.7 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 us2000hfht 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/us2000hfht, documented in the API reference.