Earthquakes in the Shelby County area
TexNet events inside the footprint of the county's 290 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 2 M2+ earthquakes in the Shelby County area in the last twelve months, 0% more than the year before.
The largest on record here was M3.5 on September 4, 2018, 7 km NNW of Timpson, Texas.
34 injection and disposal wells are active in the county, with 430,000 barrels a day of permitted capacity and 24 million barrels reported injected over the H-10 year to June 2025.
- 2
- M2+ events, last 12 months +0%
- 0
- M3+ events, last 12 months
- 4
- M2+ events, last 2 years
- M3.5
- largest on record, Sep 4, 2018
M2+ events, by month
LAST FIVE YEARS
Last 12 months 2 · prior 12 2(+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.
- M2.0–2.42
- M3.0–3.42
By year
| Year | M2+ | M3+ | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | M2.2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | M3.2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | M2.4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | M2.5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | M2.6 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | M3.5 |
RRC UIC + H-10 · TexNet daily
Disposal in the same county
- 34
- active injection wells
- 430K
- bbl/d permitted
- 24.4M
- bbl reported, H-10 year to Jun 2025
Recent events
M2+ · NEWEST FIRST · TIMES IN CENTRAL
| When | Mag | Where | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026, 12:24 AM | 2.2 | 14 km ESE of Center, Texas | 7.5 km |
| Aug 13, 2026, 10:55 AM | 2.2 | 12 km WNW of Huxley, Texas | 9.0 km |
| Aug 21, 2025, 9:02 PM | 3.2 | 5 km WSW of Huxley, Texas | 8.7 km |
| Aug 21, 2025, 4:14 PM | 3.0 | 8 km W of Huxley, Texas | 7.5 km |
| Dec 31, 2023, 5:10 AM | 2.4 | 9 km WNW of Huxley, Texas | 4.1 km |
| Dec 30, 2023, 5:43 AM | 2.4 | 10 km W of Huxley, Texas | 4.2 km |
| Dec 30, 2023, 5:30 AM | 2.3 | 6 km SW of Huxley, Texas | 14.8 km |
| Mar 23, 2020, 1:52 AM | 2.5 | 6 km NW of Timpson, Texas | 5.0 km |
| Jul 26, 2019, 11:01 PM | 2.6 | 6 km SSW of Timpson, Texas | 5.0 km |
| Sep 11, 2018, 11:35 PM | 2.5 | 1 km SSE of Timpson, Texas | 5.0 km |
| Sep 4, 2018, 10:06 AM | 3.5 | 7 km NNW of Timpson, Texas | 5.0 km |
About this data
TexNet catalog events inside 31.51–32.07°N, 93.73–94.51°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/shelby, documented in the API reference.