M1.8 earthquake 51 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck 51 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada on Sat, May 29, 2021, 9:49 PM PDT (04:49 UTC), 0 km (0 mi) below the surface.
Automatic solution: the magnitude and location may still be revised.
A larger quake followed: M2.5 19 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.8 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-05-30 04:49:34 UTC
- Depth
- 0.0 km (0.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 36.673° N, 116.265° W
- Region
- Nevada
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Automatic solution, may be revised
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
An automatic solution; a seismologist may revise it.
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.90
- Station coverage gap
- 83°
- Stations used
- 25
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 6 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.719 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1951 days ago · 10 km deep · 48 km away
- 1.919 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1950 days ago · 13 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.519 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1949 days ago · 12 km deep · 49 km away · felt by 1
- 2.119 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1949 days ago · 14 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.520 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1946 days ago · 16 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 2
- 1.724 km W of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1938 days ago · 12 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.618 km NW of North Las Vegas, Nevada · 1926 days ago · 3 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.749 km NNW of Pahrump, Nevada · 1911 days ago · 7 km deep · 8 km away
- 2.457 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada · 1911 days ago · 16 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.542 km NW of Beatty, Nevada · 1903 days ago · 4 km deep · 94 km away
Before
- 1.648 km NW of Beatty, Nevada · 1958 days ago · 7 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.151 km ESE of Beatty, Nevada · 1966 days ago · 6 km deep · 0 km away
- 1.915 km SW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1972 days ago · 16 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.517km ENE of Shoshone, CA · 1975 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.751 km WNW of Indian Springs, Nevada · 1980 days ago · 0 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.552 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada · 1982 days ago · 2 km deep · 98 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event nn00808420. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC.