On 14 September 1906 a great earthquake occurred in the Eastern New Guinea Region at a depth of 35 km. The seismic event occurred at 16:04:43 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 8.0.
This great earthquake came exactly one lunar month after the two great earthquakes that occurred on 17 August. Not surprisingly, the lunar geometry is very similar with a huge lunar peak right before the earthquake. Just as on 16 August opposing lunar conjunctions occurred with Jupiter and Uranus within several hours, which means that Earth was in close conjunction with the two planets. It was a recurring pattern in 1906 with all M 7.8> earthquakes.
In September two conjunctions occurred on the 12th and 13th, both involving Mercury. The first conjunction made the second one, which involved Earth, particularly critical. At the same time Venus made a right angle with Earth and Mercury, all of which were involved in the conjunctions. It made this a critical convergence on the 13th around the same time lunar geometry peaked very high (index 18).
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Mercury-Sun-Uranus 1906-09-08, 1:37:09 278°37'03" Sun-Mercury-Neptune 1906-09-08, 14:08:52 101°50'45" Mercury-Sun-Venus 1906-09-12, 0:05:30 302°15'34" Mercury-Earth-Saturn 1906-09-13, 22:03:18 342°16'23" Sun-Mercury-Mars 1906-09-15, 11:13:21 141°18'54" Moon-Earth-Uranus 1906-09-12, 10:19:18 275°48'37" Earth-Moon-Jupiter 1906-09-12, 16:34:01 98°56'51" Earth-Moon-Neptune 1906-09-13, 1:52:19 103°38'48" Venus: Mercury-Earth 1906-09-13, 22:56:49 90°00'00"