EARTHQUAKES · TEXNET · US6000U2WR
Magnitude 2.5 22 km W of Carlsbad, New Mexico
Friday, October 16, 2026, 6:35:03 PM Central · 2026-10-16 23:35:03 UTC
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake 22 km W of Carlsbad, New Mexico on October 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM Central, 5.8 km deep.
It is one of 25 M2+ events TexNet has located within 10 km of this spot, 3 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.7.
No active injection or disposal well is permitted within 10 km.
- M2.5
- ML, reviewed
- 5.8
- km deep · 18,922 ft
- 3
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 25
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 0
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 0
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.3810, -104.4685
- County area
- Outside any county's permit footprint
- On a map
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- Catalog
- TexNet earthquake catalog ↗
Around it in time and space
M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.
| When | Mag | Distance | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026, 7:23 PM | 2.7 | 1.4 km | 2.3 km |
| Oct 14, 2026, 5:55 PM | 3.6 | 6.2 km | 9.5 km |
| Oct 14, 2026, 4:00 AM | 3.1 | 3.5 km | 8.2 km |
| Oct 13, 2026, 5:39 PM | 3.6 | 1 km | 10.0 km |
| Sep 9, 2026, 11:00 AM | 2.5 | 7 km | 3.9 km |
| Sep 4, 2026, 10:41 PM | 2.7 | 4.4 km | 5.0 km |
| Mar 23, 2026, 8:25 AM | 3.6 | 0.5 km | 3.1 km |
| Mar 22, 2026, 12:10 PM | 3.1 | 7.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Mar 7, 2026, 11:16 AM | 2.5 | 3.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Mar 5, 2026, 11:14 AM | 2.8 | 10 km | 7.9 km |
| Mar 5, 2026, 11:06 AM | 2.6 | 2.9 km | 6.3 km |
| Feb 5, 2026, 12:05 PM | 3.7 | 4.8 km | 8.8 km |
Largest nearby on record: M3.7 on Feb 5, 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 us6000u2wr, 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/us6000u2wr, documented in the API reference.