EARTHQUAKES · TEXNET · US6000RHNH
Magnitude 3.5 24 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:02:36 PM Central · 2025-10-16 22:02:36 UTC
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake 24 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico on October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM Central, 9.7 km deep.
It is one of 21 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.6.
No active injection or disposal well is permitted within 10 km.
- M3.5
- ML, reviewed
- 9.7
- km deep · 31,924 ft
- 1
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 21
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 0
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 0
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.3311, -104.5673
- County area
- Outside any county's permit footprint
- On a map
- OpenStreetMap ↗
- Catalog
- TexNet earthquake catalog ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2025, 3:12 PM | 3.4 | 7.2 km | 6.6 km |
| Dec 8, 2025, 11:03 PM | 2.4 | 8.4 km | 4.8 km |
| Dec 31, 2025, 11:19 AM | 2.7 | 7 km | 5.5 km |
| Jan 4, 2026, 7:06 AM | 2.6 | 8.1 km | 5.9 km |
| Mar 5, 2026, 11:14 AM | 2.8 | 7 km | 7.9 km |
| Mar 22, 2026, 12:10 PM | 3.1 | 6.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Apr 11, 2026, 8:01 AM | 3.1 | 8.1 km | 4.5 km |
| May 25, 2026, 11:26 PM | 2.9 | 6.9 km | 7.1 km |
| May 28, 2026, 1:17 PM | 2.9 | 7.7 km | 4.0 km |
| Sep 4, 2026, 10:41 PM | 2.7 | 6.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 9, 2026, 11:00 AM | 2.5 | 6.8 km | 3.9 km |
| Oct 13, 2026, 5:39 PM | 3.6 | 9.8 km | 10.0 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.6 on Oct 13, 2026.
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.
No active injection or disposal well is permitted within 10 km of the epicenter.
About this data
TexNet catalog event us6000rhnh, as published by the UT Bureau of Economic Geology 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/us6000rhnh, documented in the API reference.