The tremors from a minor earthquake that shook northern Mexico late Sunday evening were felt as far as the Rio Grande Valley. A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck about six miles east of the town of Montemorelos in Nuevo Leon,

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 Pecos, about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico ...

In 2022, the RRC established the Northern Culberson-Reeves Seismic Response Area to address wastewater-injection-induced seismicity in the region. While it has sent inspectors in response to earthquakes in the past, the RRC told the Reporter-Telegram that it won’t do so this time.

El Paso felt the shaking from a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Saturday night, part of a swarm of earthquakes that rocked the area near the Texas-New Mexico border.

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

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

2025 has been quite a year so far with natural disasters, with wildfires and earthquakes among the most highly reported events. Most recently, an earthquake struck New Mexico on Saturday, May 3, during the evening hours, and those in West Texas felt the tremor.

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

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit parts of New Mexico and remote West Texas on Saturday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The seismic event began at 8.47 p.m. Central Time about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico, the agency said.

The earthquake just miles from the North Carolina border awakened families and rattled homes as far away as Charlotte as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning.