Google and Gmail are down for thousands of users, mostly in the United States (GOOGL, GOOG)

Lisa Eadicicco

August 19, 2019 8:03 PM

Google and its popular email service Gmail experienced issues on Monday for thousands of users largely based in the United States, according to reports on social media and the website-outage firm Down Detector .

FILE - In this May 1, 2019, file photo, a person walks past a Google sign in San Francisco. Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it wont work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement _ the latest in a year full of political and social pushback from the tech giants workforce. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

The Gmail issues appear to be impacting the East Coast near cities such as New York and Boston as well as areas on the West Coast near San Francisco and Los Angeles. Based on the live outage map available on Down Detector, it also looks like areas near Houston and Dallas in Texas also suffered outages.

The problems with Gmail started at 10:13 a.m. ET, while the issues with Google began at 2:09 p.m. ET, according to Down Detector. At the time of writing, the website has received more than 4,000 reports from users experiencing problems with Google and Gmail.

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