On 15 August 1950 a great earthquake occurred in Eastern Xizang-India border region (Assam, Tibet) at a depth of 15 km. The seismic event occurred at 14:09:34 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 8.6. It was preceded by a major earthquake in Argentina.
The estimated primary trigger of this seismic event is a near convergence of two planetary conjunctions on 14-15 August 1950.
Critical planetary and lunar conjunctions converged on 14-15 August 1950, a day after New Moon. The Venus-Mercury-Mars conjunction on the 14th converged with a lunar conjunction involving Jupiter. The Earth-Mercury-Saturn conjunction on the 15th converged with a lunar conjunction involving Saturn. In addition, three right angles and a semi-right angle with Mercury and Venus converged on the 13th.
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Venus-Mercury-Mars 1950-08-14, 15:18:14 256°35'03" Earth-Mercury-Saturn 1950-08-15, 13:53:46 169°31'51" Venus: Mercury-Neptune 1950-08-08, 7:05:04 45°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Uranus 1950-08-09, 19:14:17 135°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Jupiter 1950-08-09, 20:11:23 90°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Earth 1950-08-10, 18:01:12 45°00'00" Mercury: Earth-Mars 1950-08-13, 12:48:02 90°00'00" Sun: Venus-Saturn 1950-08-13, 13:08:00 90°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Jupiter 1950-08-13, 13:18:16 90°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Neptune 1950-08-13, 16:52:37 45°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Saturn 1950-08-16, 1:46:55 90°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Earth 1950-08-16, 17:21:52 90°00'00" Earth-Moon-Uranus 1950-08-10, 10:43:44 98°22'42" Earth-Moon-Venus 1950-08-11, 17:55:48 114°48'28" Earth-Moon-Sun 1950-08-13, 18:06:10 141°06'04" Moon-Earth-Jupiter 1950-08-14, 18:14:14 334°39'59" Earth-Moon-Saturn 1950-08-15, 20:18:26 169°33'43" Earth-Moon-Mercury 1950-08-15, 20:50:52 169°52'23" Earth-Moon-Neptune 1950-08-17, 17:46:15 195°58'44"