EARTHQUAKES · GALVESTON COUNTY
Earthquakes in the Galveston County area
Earthquakes located inside the footprint of the county's 57 located permits, padded 0.1°. Events carry no county, so this is an area, and border clusters show up in more than one. The county's disposal wells →
No M2+ earthquakes were located in the Galveston County area in the last twelve months.
31 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 155,050 barrels a day of permitted capacity and 1.8 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.
- 0
- M2+ events, last 12 months
- 0
- M3+ events, last 12 months
- 0
- M2+ events, last 2 years
- —
- largest on record
M2+ events, by month
LAST FIVE YEARS
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0
M2–2.9M3+
By magnitude
M2+ events in the last two years, in half-magnitude steps. Each step up is about 32 times the energy.
- No M2+ events in the last two years.
By year
| Year | M2+ | M3+ | Largest |
|---|
RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily
Disposal in the same county
- 31
- active injection wells
- 155K
- bbl/d permitted
- 1.8M
- bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025
Recent events
M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL
| When | Mag | Where | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| No M2+ events located in this area. | |||
About this data
Earthquakes from the USGS catalog inside Texas, located by TexNet and the other networks that report there, counted once each, inside 29.14–29.66°N, 94.32–95.28°W, refreshed daily. Disposal figures from the RRC UIC well master and H-10 filings at the last settled month.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/earthquakes/tx/galveston, documented in the API reference.