Mw 8.0 Northern Xinjiang, China

On 22 December 1906 a major earthquake occurred in Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 15km. The seismic event occurred at 18:21:12 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 8.0.

On 15 December 1906 Earth made conjunctions with Jupiter and Uranus and lunar conjunctions occurred with both planets within 30 minutes a day later, which were shortly followed by a lunar conjunction with Neptune. This resulted in a high lunar peak on 16-17 December. A convergence of critical planetary geometry occurred on 17 and 21 December. In addition, Venus made a conjunction with Uranus and Neptune in less than two days, which also coincided with lunar peaks.

In 1905 and especially 1906 Earth moved close to the Uranus-Neptune line, which resulted in critical lunar geometry with both planets each time. To date 1906 is seismically still the most active year on record with no less than 22 magnitude ≥ 7.0 and 7 magnitude ≥ 7.8 earthquakes, 5(!) of which reached magnitude ≥ 8. The largest earthquake measured magnitude 8.8 on 31 January near the coast of Ecuador. A similar sized earthquake did not occur until 1952.

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Jupiter-Earth-Uranus      1906-12-15, 20:26:55  279°00'25"
Sun-Venus-Jupiter         1906-12-17, 13:05:42   96°22'17"
Mercury-Sun-Saturn        1906-12-17, 14:58:17  346°18'13"
Venus-Sun-Uranus          1906-12-19, 15:45:03  279°47'14"
Sun-Venus-Neptune         1906-12-21,  7:33:45  102°28'23"
Sun-Mercury-Mars          1906-12-21, 22:29:51  184°08'08"

Earth-Moon-Sun            1906-12-15, 21:09:02  264°19'06"
Moon-Earth-Jupiter        1906-12-16, 20:09:01   98°52'49"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         1906-12-16, 20:26:41  279°03'56"
Moon-Earth-Neptune        1906-12-17,  2:43:48  103°00'44"
Earth-Moon-Saturn         1906-12-21,  4:15:30  340°53'07"
					

SSGI COMMON graph of critical planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry


SSGI SUM graph of critical planetary (PG) geometry