Overview
- The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quake at 5:21 a.m. CT on Thursday, July 23, 2026, with an epicenter roughly 23–24 miles from Spearman/Miami and a shallow depth of about 3.5 miles.
- Shaking was felt across the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma and Kansas, with hundreds of public reports to the USGS and accounts of items falling and brief loss of balance in homes.
- Local officials and emergency responders reported no confirmed injuries or major structural damage and said oil-and-gas operators and pipeline companies were conducting precautionary inspections and pressure checks.
- The USGS cataloged the event as the strongest instrumentally recorded quake in the Panhandle in at least 100 years and warned smaller aftershocks are likely with a low chance of a larger tremor.
- Scientists have not determined a cause and will analyze seismic records, subsurface pressure data and local faults to assess whether the event was natural or related to industrial activity after a separate M3.9 Permian Basin quake the same day.