{"id":348660,"date":"2026-06-24T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:20:26","slug":"earthquake-reported-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348660\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake reported in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MIDLAND, Texas &#8211; A small earthquake was reported in West Texas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the magnitude 3.1 temblor happened at 4:10 p.m. about 7 miles west-southwest of Stanton, Texas. That is just north of Interstate 20.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The USGS received reports of light shaking in parts of Dix, Germania and eastern sections of Midland.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tx-quake-map-1.jpg\" alt=\"The star on this map indicates the epicenter of an earthquake near Midland, Texas, on June 23, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">The star on this map indicates the epicenter of an earthquake near Midland, Texas, on June 23, 2026.  (USGS \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TexNet, the state\u2019s seismological network, reported several other much smaller earthquakes in the same area since Tuesday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No damage has been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the USGS and TexNet.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Texas &#8211; A small earthquake was reported in West Texas on Tuesday. What we know: According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,216,393,172],"class_list":["post-348660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}