Mw 6.9 Near South Coast of Western Honshu, Japan
updated 26 May 2021 UTC
On 16 January 1995 a strong earthquake occurred near the South coast of Western Honshu, Japan. The seismic event occurred at 20:46:52 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.9. This seismic event is also referred to as the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
No less than five planetary alignments occurred starting on 12 January, three of which involved Earth. Lunar geometry was critical before and during the earthquake with SSGI 16 and 18 respectively. One of the critical lunar aspects was the Moon's alignment with the Sun (Full Moon) and Uranus at nearly the same time of the earthquake. Based on this geometry the days 16-18 January 1995 were most critical whereby seismic activity could potentially have reached 7 to 8 magnitude, depending on the amount of stress along critical fault sections.
Venus-Mercury-Saturn 1995-01-12, 2:07:17 342°41'50"
Earth-Sun-Neptune 1995-01-13, 17:07:36 293°07'13"
Earth-Venus-Jupiter 1995-01-14, 21:54:45 247°29'07"
Earth-Sun-Uranus 1995-01-17, 0:23:56 296°29'01"
SSGI depiction of planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry
Mw 7.0 Near East coast of Honshu, Japan
updated 26 May 2021 UTC
On 6 January 1995 a major earthquake occurred near the East coast of Honshu, Japan. The seismic event occurred at 22:37:34 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.0.
Starting on 2 January three planetary alignments preceded the earthquake, two of which involved Earth and Mercury. The alignments converged with two high lunar peaks reaching SSGI 20 and 16 respectively. Based on this geometry the first week of January 1995 was critical whereby seismic activity could potentially have reached 7 to 8 magnitude, depending on the amount of stress along critical fault sections.
Earth-Mercury-Neptune 1995-01-02, 8:20:04 292°41'29"
Earth-Mercury-Uranus 1995-01-04, 5:26:02 295°43'57"
Mars-Venus-Neptune 1995-01-06, 16:39:05 293°47'02"
SSGI depiction of planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry