The earthquake, which happened about 10 miles northeast of Hermleigh in West Texas, initially registered as a 4.8-magnitude ...

3 earthquakes, including a 4.9, rattle Texas late Monday night The three earthquakes all happened in the same area about 11 miles northeast of Hermleigh, a town of around 500 people in Scurry County.

In East and Central Texas, there were fairly small earthquakes in 1847, 1873, 1887, 1902, 1932 and 1934. The 1887 Wellborn, 1910 Hempstead and 1914 Anderson shocks happened in southeast Texas.

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 ...

HOUSTON — More than a dozen earthquakes have been reported across Texas in the last week, including a magnitude 4.3 that shook parts of the Panhandle late Wednesday. Note: the video in this ...

West Texas gets its fair share of earthquakes, but the sheer magnitude of seismic activity and total number of events there late last month was staggering. Scurry County, which sits in the Permian ...

Editor's note: This story was last published on Nov. 9, 2023. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck far West Texas early Wednesday morning at 4:27 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

Between 2018 and 2020, Texas recorded nine earthquakes above magnitude 4, almost all of them in the western half of the state. Last year, ...

Ten earthquakes had epicenters near El Paso, one of which caused the only known death by a Texas earthquake. In the Panhandle, the largest reported earthquakes have not exceeded magnitude 5.4.

3 earthquakes, including a 4.9, rattle Texas late Monday night The three earthquakes all happened in the same area about 11 miles northeast of Hermleigh, a town of around 500 people in Scurry County.