Mw 6.8 Near West Coast of Honshu, Japan

On 23 October 2004 a strong earthquake occurred near the West Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km. The seismic event occurred at 08:55:59 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.8.

On 19 October Venus aligned with the Sun and Saturn after which the Moon aligned with Saturn a day later. The Moon subsequently algned with Neptune and Uranus on 21 and 23 October.

Sun-Venus-Saturn          2004-10-19, 18:16:42  110°36'35"
Sun:     Mercury-Uranus   2004-10-22, 19:42:03   90°00'00"

Moon-Earth-Saturn         2004-10-20, 20:19:11  116°57'50"
Earth-Moon-Neptune        2004-10-21, 22:51:42  312°32'39"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         2004-10-23, 10:13:28  332°57'42"
					

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


SSGI SUM graph of critical planetary (PG) geometry