Mw 7.0 Southern Alaska

On 30 November 2018 a major earthquake occurred in Southern Alaska at a depth of 57 km. The seismic event occurred at 17:29:27 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.0.

A series of planetary alignments occurred from 25 November to 1 December with a highlight on 27 November when three alignments converged involving the Sun, Mercury, Earth and Jupiter. The earthquake occurred with the lunar peak that followed on the critical planetary geometry on the 27th, but also close to Earth's alignment with Venus and Uranus on 1 December.

Venus-Mercury-Saturn      2018-11-25, 15:40:20  278°53'19"
Earth-Sun-Jupiter         2018-11-26,  6:37:37  243°41'16"
Mercury-Sun-Jupiter       2018-11-27,  5:07:34  243°45'40"
Sun-Mercury-Earth         2018-11-27,  9:08:05   64°48'19"
Earth-Mercury-Jupiter     2018-11-27, 22:14:47  244°03'24"
Venus-Earth-Uranus        2018-12-01,  2:00:31   28°53'35"
Sun-Mercury-Venus         2018-12-01, 10:56:11   90°29'56"

Moon-Earth-Saturn         2018-11-25, 18:25:54  277°00'42"
Moon-Earth-Mars           2018-11-30,  1:47:48  338°37'28"
Moon-Earth-Neptune        2018-11-30, 10:03:12  343°26'35"
          

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