EARTHQUAKES · KENT AREA · US70007TEC
Magnitude 2.6 17 km N of Snyder, Texas
Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 10:47:42 PM Central · 2020-02-20 04:47:42 UTC
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake 17 km N of Snyder, Texas on February 19, 2020 at 10:47 PM Central, 5.0 km deep, in the Kent County area.
It is one of 107 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 0.7 km away and operated by Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC; together they hold 180,500 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
- M2.6
- MB_LG, reviewed
- 5.0
- km deep · 16,405 ft
- 0
- M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
- 107
- M2+ within 10 km, all time
- 15
- active injection wells within 10 km
- 162
- permitted wells within 10 km
Location
- Epicenter
- 32.8791, -100.9266
- County area
- Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2020, 8:09 PM | 3.0 | 0.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 2, 2019, 12:08 PM | 2.6 | 5.5 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 1, 2019, 6:20 AM | 2.5 | 5.4 km | 5.0 km |
| Oct 1, 2019, 2:14 AM | 3.8 | 3.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Sep 30, 2019, 4:47 PM | 4.0 | 7.8 km | 5.0 km |
| Jul 27, 2019, 11:41 AM | 2.5 | 8.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Jul 26, 2019, 7:35 PM | 2.8 | 8.3 km | 5.0 km |
| Jun 30, 2019, 4:03 PM | 2.6 | 4.3 km | 3.6 km |
| Nov 14, 2020, 10:27 PM | 3.5 | 5.6 km | 5.0 km |
| May 7, 2019, 3:27 PM | 2.9 | 2 km | 2.0 km |
| Mar 23, 2019, 10:24 PM | 2.2 | 6.2 km | 5.0 km |
| Jan 31, 2021, 10:52 PM | 2.7 | 7.5 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 Kent County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →
About this data
Event us70007tec 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/us70007tec, documented in the API reference.