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Texas Oilfield Earthquake Damage in Reeves & Culberson Counties: Your Property, Their Injection Wells At 4:30 in the morning on November 8, 2023, the ground in West Texas moved. Not a tremor — a 5.2 magnitude earthquake, northwest of Pecos, strong enough to be felt in El Paso and Roswell, New Mexico, tied for the fourth strongest ever recorded in this state. If you live in Reeves or Culberson County, you already know this. You felt it. You may have watched cracks spider across a wall you built your life around, or stood in a doorway while a home you paid for shook in a way no home in West Texas was ever supposed to shake. And you may have been told — by a neighbor, by the news, by the company truck parked at the injection well down the road — that this is just something that happens. An act of God. The earth doing what the earth does. It is not. Scientists at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin and researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey have linked the escalating seismic activity in this region to one specific human activity: the underground…