The strongest was a 4.9-magnitude quake. All of these recent events raise the question: Why the heck are there earthquakes in Texas now? We in the Western Hemisphere have been trained to think of ...

SNYDER, Texas — At 10:38 p.m. Monday, the ground began to rumble in West Texas. The real action was nearly five miles below the surface, where a 4.9-magnitude earthquake happened just west of ...

TEXAS, USA — This summer, Texas has registered over 1,000 earthquakes. A few of the stronger ones – Magnitude 4 and above – made headlines in late July. The large number can seem staggering ...

So many earthquakes have struck the west Texas county of Scurry in the past week – more than 100 at last count – local officials have declared a state of emergency. Scurry County Judge Dan ...

West Texas earthquakes last month rattled Scurry ... sheetrock and paneling. The recent earthquakes are likely related to oil and gas operations, according to geophysicists. Scurry County sits ...

HERMLEIGH – The Texas agency overseeing the oil and gas industry said inspectors are examining saltwater disposal wells within a 2.5-mile stretch where a bevy of earthquakes have stunned West ...

In recent weeks, North Texans felt the aftershock ... injecting water,” Aziz Zanjani said. With the rise of earthquakes in West Texas — nearly 2,000 hit the area in 2021, a record high ...

Scurry County officials have declared a state of emergency after over 100 earthquakes shook West Texas over the past eight days. Last Friday, Scurry County Judge Dan Hicks issued a disaster ...

In 2022, the Texas Tribune reported that there were 209 recorded earthquakes of 3.0-magnitude ... Hermleigh, the epicenter for much of the recent activity, is located in the Permian Basin, an ...