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.
The estimated primary trigger of this seismic event is a sequence of three critical planetary conjunctions from 12 to 14 January.
Four planetary conjunctions occurred from 12 to 17 January, three of which involved Earth. After the Sun-Uranus-Neptune conjunction in 1993, the outer planets were still only 4° apart relative to the Sun and Earth made opposite conjunctions with both planets on 14 and 17 January. In addition, lunar conjunctions also occurred with both outer planets on 16 January, during a lunar conjunction with the Sun (Full Moon). This configuration resulted in high lunar peaks on 12-13 and 16 January. After the Earth-Venus-Jupiter conjunction on 14 January a clustering of strong seismic events occurred from 15 to 17 January.
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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" Venus-Sun-Saturn 1995-01-18, 3:27:42 343°33'26" Sun: Venus-Jupiter 1995-01-09, 10:07:55 90°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Jupiter 1995-01-09, 20:16:12 90°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Neptune 1995-01-10, 0:48:51 135°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Mars 1995-01-10, 5:00:20 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Mars 1995-01-10, 10:34:50 135°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Neptune 1995-01-10, 14:24:50 45°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Uranus 1995-01-11, 5:23:56 135°00'00" Venus: Saturn-Uranus 1995-01-11, 14:46:09 45°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Uranus 1995-01-12, 1:44:27 45°00'00" Venus: Mars-Jupiter 1995-01-13, 15:08:59 135°00'00" Venus: Earth-Mars 1995-01-14, 16:42:22 45°00'00" Sun: Venus-Neptune 1995-01-14, 19:12:29 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Jupiter 1995-01-14, 19:13:47 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Neptune 1995-01-16, 8:45:10 90°00'00" Venus: Earth-Neptune 1995-01-16, 12:11:22 135°00'00" Sun: Venus-Earth 1995-01-16, 14:46:53 45°00'00" Sun: Venus-Uranus 1995-01-16, 20:47:09 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Earth 1995-01-16, 23:09:11 90°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Uranus 1995-01-16, 23:22:49 90°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Venus 1995-01-17, 0:26:55 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Saturn 1995-01-17, 8:12:55 45°00'00" Moon-Earth-Venus 1995-01-12, 15:30:21 245°10'29" Moon-Earth-Jupiter 1995-01-12, 19:24:08 247°05'43" Moon-Earth-Neptune 1995-01-16, 14:44:46 293°13'49" Moon-Earth-Sun 1995-01-16, 20:41:09 296°19'34" Moon-Earth-Uranus 1995-01-16, 20:58:16 296°28'30" Moon-Earth-Mercury 1995-01-18, 11:03:44 316°38'13" Earth: Moon-Neptune 1995-01-09, 1:53:19 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Saturn 1995-01-09, 3:33:13 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Uranus 1995-01-09, 8:03:35 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mars 1995-01-12, 9:20:35 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Sun 1995-01-12, 19:37:51 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Neptune 1995-01-12, 21:25:00 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Saturn 1995-01-12, 23:32:52 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Uranus 1995-01-13, 3:49:33 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mars 1995-01-16, 1:54:45 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Jupiter 1995-01-16, 13:53:54 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Venus 1995-01-16, 16:51:47 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Saturn 1995-01-16, 17:12:08 135°00'00"