EARTHQUAKES · HARTLEY COUNTY

Earthquakes in the Hartley County area

TexNet events inside the footprint of the county's 37 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 →

TexNet located 1 M2+ earthquakes in the Hartley County area in the last twelve months, up from none the year before.

The largest on record here was M3.2 on May 10, 2021, 13 km W of Channing, Texas.

10 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 57,400 barrels a day of permitted capacity and 8.6 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.

1
M2+ events, last 12 months
0
M3+ events, last 12 months
1
M2+ events, last 2 years
M3.2
largest on record, May 10, 2021

M2+ events, by month

LAST FIVE YEARS

Last 12 months 3

0120242026

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.

  • M2.0–2.41

By year

YearM2+M3+Largest
202610M2.1
202410M2.7
202310M2.6
202111M3.2
201710M2.7

RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily

Disposal in the same county

10
active injection wells
57.4K
bbl/d permitted
8.58M
bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025

All of Hartley County's disposal wells and volumes →

Recent events

M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL

WhenMagWhereDepth
Oct 2, 2026, 11:49 PM2.116 km SW of Dalhart, Texas6.9 km
May 17, 2024, 4:05 AM2.73 km SSE of Hartley, Texas3.8 km
Aug 10, 2023, 7:47 PM2.624 km WSW of Channing, Texas11.7 km
May 10, 2021, 6:46 AM3.213 km W of Channing, Texas3.1 km
Oct 2, 2017, 2:55 PM2.76 km ESE of Channing, Texas5.0 km

About this data

TexNet catalog events inside 35.53–36.10°N, 102.17–103.11°W, refreshed daily. Disposal figures from the RRC UIC well master and H-10 filings at the last settled month.

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