M1.8 earthquake 40 km NNE of Gabbs, Nevada
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck 40 km NNE of Gabbs, Nevada on Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 2:09 AM PDT (09:09 UTC), 13 km (8 mi) below the surface.
Automatic solution: the magnitude and location may still be revised.
A larger quake followed: M2.2 26 km WSW of Kingston, 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
- 2021-07-19 09:09:12 UTC
- Depth
- 13.0 km (8.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 39.213° N, 117.774° 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
- ±0.59
- Station coverage gap
- 298°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 8
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 22 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.226 km WSW of Kingston, Nevada · 1902 days ago · 12 km deep · 36 km away
- 1.811 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada · 1902 days ago · 0 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.838 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada · 1901 days ago · 9 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.563 km N of Tonopah, Nevada · 1900 days ago · 4 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.555 km S of Kingston, Nevada · 1894 days ago · 5 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.649 km WSW of Austin, Nevada · 1891 days ago · 7 km deep · 23 km away
- 1.930 km NE of Gabbs, Nevada · 1881 days ago · 3 km deep · 18 km away
- 1.510 km NW of Mina, Nevada · 1881 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.026 km NE of Mina, Nevada · 1879 days ago · 8 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.755 km N of Tonopah, Nevada · 1879 days ago · 14 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.617 km SW of Gabbs, Nevada · 1878 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.735 km W of Kingston, Nevada · 1874 days ago · 6 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.036 km WNW of Kingston, Nevada · 1874 days ago · 11 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.644 km NNW of Gabbs, Nevada · 1873 days ago · 12 km deep · 26 km away
- 1.812 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada · 1872 days ago · 6 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.7Nevada · 1867 days ago · 9 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.751 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada · 1865 days ago · 0 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.033 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada · 1865 days ago · 0 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.767 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada · 1852 days ago · 14 km deep · 36 km away · felt by 2
- 1.615 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada · 1847 days ago · 0 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.615 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada · 1847 days ago · 7 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.522 km NNW of Mina, Nevada · 1846 days ago · 0 km deep · 78 km away
Before
- 1.819 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada · 1903 days ago · 5 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.733 km E of Fallon Station, Nevada · 1904 days ago · 16 km deep · 54 km away · felt by 1
- 1.822 km NE of Gabbs, Nevada · 1905 days ago · 10 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.558 km N of Tonopah, Nevada · 1905 days ago · 6 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.740 km ENE of Schurz, Nevada · 1906 days ago · 0 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.948 km SSW of Kingston, Nevada · 1906 days ago · 16 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.68 km SE of Mina, Nevada · 1906 days ago · 2 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.164 km ESE of Lovelock, Nevada · 1913 days ago · 17 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.650 km S of Kingston, Nevada · 1923 days ago · 0 km deep · 85 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event nn00815000. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC.