Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.0ml
21 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada
Yes. A magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded 21 km SSW of Gabbs, Nevada, at 9:51 pm PST on 4 November 2025 (05:51 UTC), 16 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 16 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mineral County, 41 km WSW
- Nearest mapped fault
- Gabbs Valley fault, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 373 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 4 km (2 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 36 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 lb of TNT
Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.3 on 2016-03-21 — about 2,400 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 24 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.8 The 1932 Cedar Mountain, Nevada Earthquake · 9 km SSE of this epicentre
- 5.5 10 km SW of Gabbs, Nevada · 13 km N of this epicentre
- 5.5 18 km S of Gabbs, Nevada · 8 km ENE of this epicentre
- 5.5 28 km E of Gabbs, Nevada · 42 km NE of this epicentre
- 5.5 32 km NE of Mina, Nevada · 18 km SE of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 38.6798, -117.9922. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral County, NV | 41 km (26 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Mineral County |
| Churchill County, NV | 98 km (61 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Churchill County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 105 km (65 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Lyon County, NV | 111 km (69 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Lyon County |
| Mono County, CA | 115 km (71 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Mono County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
35 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 14 km ENE of Hawthorne, Nevada
- 1.5 20 km NE of Mina, Nevada
- 2.5 23 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada
- 1.5 17 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.6 6 km SW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.6 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.7 20 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.7 34 km WNW of Gabbs, Nevada
- 1.6 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.6 21 km WNW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.7 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
- 2.1 16 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.9 22 km W of Mina, Nevada
- 1.7 20 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada
- 2.2 10 km NNW of Mina, Nevada
Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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