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May 6, 2024

Earthquakes Are Moving Northeast in Midland Basin of Texas

After analyzing seven years of earthquake data from the Midland Basin, a team of scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has found that…

October 25, 2023

Scientists Isolate Early-Warning Tremor Pattern in Lab-Made Earthquakes

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully isolated a pattern of lab-made ‘foreshock’ tremors. The finding offers hope that future earthquakes could…

October 5, 2023

AI-Driven Earthquake Forecasting Shows Promise in Trials

A new attempt to predict earthquakes with the aid of artificial intelligence has raised hopes that the technology could one day be used to limit…

November 17, 2022

TexNet Records M5.3 and M4.1 Seismic Events in Reeves County, Texas

TexNet, the Texas state earthquake monitoring network, recorded Magnitude 5.3 and Magnitude 4.1 earthquakes at 3:32 p.m. and 4:39 p.m., respectively, on November 16th, 2022,…

June 27, 2022

Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Most Recent Earthquakes in West Texas

Since 2009, earthquakes have been rapidly rising in the Delaware Basin – a prolific oil-producing region in West Texas and New Mexico. According to a…

March 8, 2021

Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National Network

Now in its fifth year of operation, the Bureau of Economic Geology’s TexNet earthquake monitoring system manages more than 150 seismic stations throughout Texas and…

November 4, 2019