Earthquakes in West Texas and southern New Mexico prompt questions about their link to oil and gas operations.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the earthquake's epicenter was about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Culberson County, West Texas, marking one of the strongest quakes in state history and ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck West Texas on Saturday night, part of a swarm of earthquakes to rock the area near the ...

Most recently, an earthquake struck New Mexico on Saturday, May 3, during the evening hours, and those in West Texas felt the ...

A significant earthquake shook the sparse desert landscape of West Texas on Saturday evening, marking the largest in a ...

The earthquake happened around 7:47 p.m. MT, nearly 35 miles west of Whites City, New Mexico, about 149 miles from El Paso.

More than 1,600 people from as far away as Hemet, California, and Dallas reported feeling the tremor to the agency. Getty ...

In 2022, the RRC established the Northern Culberson-Reeves Seismic Response Area to address wastewater-injection-induced ...

The area is prone to earthquakes and Texas has recorded 17 tremors above a magnitude 5 since 1882, according to USGS. The strongest of these was a magnitude 8 shake in western Texas. The number of ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook the West Texas area just south of the New Mexico border, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The nearly 5-mile deep quake hit west of ...