EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · US2000JIVJ
Magnitude 2.5 6 km ESE of Lindsay, Texas
Saturday, February 16, 2019, 8:59:42 AM Central · 2019-02-16 14:59:42 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 6 km ESE of Lindsay, Texas on February 16, 2019 at 8:59 AM Central, 5.0 km deep, in the Ward County area.
It is one of 67 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 4 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.0.
15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 1.4 km away and operated by Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC; together they hold 261,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
5 of the nearby wells report daily to TexNet; they injected 11,939 barrels a day in August 2026.
- M2.5
- ML, reviewed
- 5.0
- km deep · 16,405 ft
- 4
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 67
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 649
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 31.3553, -103.4747
- County area
- Ward County
- On a map
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- USGS event page ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2019, 10:15 AM | 2.1 | 7.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 15, 2019, 9:52 PM | 2.3 | 9.6 km | 5.0 km |
| Feb 2, 2019, 5:07 AM | 2.6 | 6.5 km | 2.4 km |
| Jan 29, 2019, 6:32 AM | 2.6 | 3.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Jan 20, 2019, 9:40 AM | 2.7 | 4.9 km | 5.0 km |
| Apr 27, 2019, 12:40 PM | 2.7 | 9.9 km | 4.5 km |
| Oct 26, 2018, 2:31 PM | 2.9 | 2.4 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 14, 2018, 3:30 AM | 2.6 | 2.5 km | 2.3 km |
| Jul 23, 2018, 8:41 AM | 2.6 | 9.3 km | 3.8 km |
| Jul 13, 2018, 5:45 AM | 2.7 | 1.7 km | 2.9 km |
| Jul 13, 2018, 4:33 AM | 2.9 | 4.1 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 28, 2019, 1:07 PM | 2.3 | 4.1 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. 5 of these report daily to TexNet: 11.9K bbl/d in Aug 2026.
Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event us2000jivj 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/us2000jivj, documented in the API reference.