Texas oil and gas agency investigating 5.4 magnitude earthquake in West Texas, the largest in three decades

  • Martin County first responders were dispatched to a wreck on Hwy 349 Tuesday afternoon. The driver of the pick-up crossed four lanes a traffic and hit a motor home. He was transported by AeroCare to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa with life threatening injuries.
    Martin County first responders were dispatched to a wreck on Hwy 349 Tuesday afternoon. The driver of the pick-up crossed four lanes a traffic and hit a motor home. He was transported by AeroCare to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa with life threatening injuries.
    WEST TEXAS - The Texas oil and gas boom has granted long-lasting revenue for mineral rights holders and provided thousands of high paying jobs for many of Texas’s rural residents. Inspectors for the Texas Railroad Commission are investigating a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that was recorded west of Pecos near the border of Reeves and Culberson counties last Wednesday, the agency ...

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