Mw 6.8 Mindanao, Philippines

On 28 April 2017 a strong earthquake occurred in Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 42 km. The seismic event occurred at 20:23:18 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.8.

The earthquake occurred a few hours after the Earth-Mercury-Uranus alignment, that occurred hours after the Moon lined up with Mars. On the 25th the Moon had already made critical geometry, indicated by the lunar peak that reached 14 late on the 24th and 25th when a strong earthquake also occurred.

Moon-Earth-Jupiter        2017-04-25,  2:51:31  195°52'17"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         2017-04-25, 17:31:40   24°53'03"
Earth-Moon-Mercury        2017-04-25, 19:57:28   26°23'19"
Earth-Moon-Sun            2017-04-26, 11:41:22   36°11'44"
Earth-Moon-Mars           2017-04-28,  8:43:22   64°32'56"

Earth-Mercury-Uranus      2017-04-28, 14:23:52   25°02'44"
          

SSGI depiction of planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry