On 26 May 1975 a major earthquake occurred at the Azores-Cape St. Vincent Ridge at a depth of 33 km. The seismic event occurred at 09:11:51 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.9.
Two planetary conjunctions converged on 24 May, followed by critical lunar geometry on 25 May, including full Moon. The earthquake occurred less than 24 hours before a Venus-Sun-Jupiter conjunction.
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Venus-Mercury-Mars 1975-05-20, 21:11:04 333°01'15" Earth-Venus-Saturn 1975-05-24, 9:04:17 106°28'53" Sun-Mercury-Uranus 1975-05-24, 22:33:22 211°12'42" Venus-Sun-Jupiter 1975-05-27, 7:42:12 7°13'40" Moon-Earth-Mars 1975-05-20, 18:05:48 359°54'15" Moon-Earth-Jupiter 1975-05-21, 19:29:33 15°05'13" Earth-Moon-Uranus 1975-05-22, 19:45:02 209°31'30" Moon-Earth-Sun 1975-05-25, 6:31:42 63°47'39" Earth-Moon-Neptune 1975-05-25, 19:07:30 250°56'31" Moon-Earth-Mercury 1975-05-26, 17:49:22 83°36'24" Moon-Earth-Saturn 1975-05-28, 13:02:50 106°55'50" Moon-Earth-Venus 1975-05-28, 21:27:10 111°20'57"