Mw 6.8 Ionian Sea

On 25 October 2018 a strong earthquake occurred at the Ionian Sea at a depth of 10 km. The seismic event occurred at 22:54:51 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.8.

Four planetary alignments converged on the 24th and 25th, most notably a near quadruple alignment with the Sun, Venus, Earth and Uranus. With the additional alignments Sun-Mercury-Saturn and Venus-Mercury-Jupiter, seismic activity could have reached well over 7 magnitude.

Sun-Earth-Uranus          2018-10-24,  0:32:13   30°17'36"
Sun-Mercury-Saturn        2018-10-24,  5:28:03  279°09'53"
Sun-Venus-Uranus          2018-10-24, 23:55:14   30°18'15"
Venus-Mercury-Jupiter     2018-10-25, 15:03:44  237°46'28"

Earth:   Moon-Neptune     2018-10-24, 12:17:51   45°00'00"
Earth:   Moon-Uranus      2018-10-24, 15:07:17    0°00'00"
Moon:    Earth-Sun        2018-10-24, 16:20:57    0°00'00"
Moon:    Earth-Venus      2018-10-24, 21:37:23    0°00'00"
          

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