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EARTHQUAKES · LIVE OAK COUNTY

Earthquakes in the Live Oak County area

TexNet events inside the footprint of the county's 999 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 28 M2+ earthquakes in the Live Oak County area in the last twelve months, 155% more than the year before, 3 of them M3 or more.

The largest on record here was M3.6 on January 6, 2018, 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas.

54 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 239,760 barrels a day of permitted capacity and 6.4 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.

28
M2+ events, last 12 months +155%
3
M3+ events, last 12 months
39
M2+ events, last 2 years
M3.6
largest on record, Jan 6, 2018

M2+ events, by month

LAST FIVE YEARS

Last 12 months 48 · prior 12 35(+37%)

0102020222023202420252026

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.

  • M2.0–2.432
  • M2.5–2.94
  • M3.0–3.42
  • M3.5–3.91

By year

YearM2+M3+Largest
2026283M3.5
202590M2.5
2024211M3.3
2023250M2.8
2022261M3.0
202182M3.0
202040M2.7
2019401M3.1
2018133M3.6
201730M2.3

RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily

Disposal in the same county

54
active injection wells
240K
bbl/d permitted
6.35M
bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025

All of Live Oak County's disposal wells and volumes →

Recent events

M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL

WhenMagWhereDepth
May 21, 2026, 1:24 PM2.319 km NNW of Three Rivers, Texas4.6 km
May 18, 2026, 5:29 AM2.020 km NW of Three Rivers, Texas8.3 km
May 16, 2026, 10:29 PM2.36 km NNE of Three Rivers, Texas9.3 km
May 16, 2026, 4:00 AM2.08 km N of Three Rivers, Texas4.7 km
May 14, 2026, 10:35 PM2.47 km N of Three Rivers, Texas9.8 km
Apr 11, 2026, 8:24 PM2.818 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.0 km
Apr 11, 2026, 8:23 PM2.118 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.8 km
Apr 9, 2026, 10:03 AM2.120 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.1 km
Apr 9, 2026, 3:55 AM2.220 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas5.2 km
Apr 8, 2026, 7:02 AM3.420 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas5.7 km
Apr 8, 2026, 1:18 AM3.519 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas4.5 km
Apr 8, 2026, 1:17 AM2.519 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas5.2 km
Apr 7, 2026, 3:06 PM2.319 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas5.9 km
Apr 7, 2026, 11:24 AM2.020 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.9 km
Apr 7, 2026, 7:34 AM2.319 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas7.1 km
Apr 7, 2026, 7:02 AM2.119 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas7.2 km
Apr 7, 2026, 1:32 AM2.919 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas7.1 km
Apr 6, 2026, 11:54 PM2.119 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.1 km
Apr 6, 2026, 9:04 PM2.019 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas7.5 km
Apr 6, 2026, 7:30 PM2.019 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas8.7 km
Apr 6, 2026, 6:49 PM2.219 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.6 km
Apr 6, 2026, 3:31 PM2.219 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.7 km
Apr 6, 2026, 10:59 AM3.020 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas6.2 km
Apr 6, 2026, 8:18 AM2.018 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas8.5 km
Apr 6, 2026, 7:32 AM2.220 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas5.6 km

About this data

TexNet catalog events inside 27.96–28.87°N, 97.84–98.43°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/live-oak, documented in the API reference.