Mw 6.8 Jan Mayen Island Region

On 9 November 2018 a strong earthquake occurred in the Jan Mayen Island Region at a depth of 10 km. The seismic event occurred at 01:49:39 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.8.

The earthquake occurred following critical lunar geometry (index 14) a day earlier, most notably the Moon's alignment with Jupiter. No critical planetary geometry was involved.

Moon-Earth-Neptune        2018-11-03,  4:44:05  343°34'03"
Earth-Moon-Venus          2018-11-06,  7:47:55  207°03'32"
Moon-Earth-Uranus         2018-11-06, 12:31:38   29°44'50"
Earth-Moon-Sun            2018-11-07, 15:31:02  224°54'50"
Earth-Moon-Jupiter        2018-11-08, 18:38:18  239°48'15"
Earth-Moon-Mercury        2018-11-09, 13:07:37  249°44'01"
          

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