On 6 January 2019 a strong earthquake occurred in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 40 km. The seismic event occurred at 17:27:18 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.6.
A clustering of strong earthquakes occurred following the high lunar peak on 3 January, which was partly due to the Moon's alignment with Jupiter.
Venus-Mercury-Saturn 2018-12-30, 3:01:31 283°26'09" Mercury-Sun-Mars 2018-12-30, 8:13:25 40°27'12" Earth-Sun-Saturn 2019-01-02, 5:52:23 281°16'12" Sun-Mercury-Jupiter 2019-01-08, 15:11:13 247°05'08" Earth-Moon-Venus 2019-01-01, 21:50:45 234°08'01" Earth-Moon-Jupiter 2019-01-03, 7:48:26 252°00'06" Earth-Moon-Mercury 2019-01-04, 17:02:14 269°05'17" Earth-Moon-Saturn 2019-01-05, 17:57:22 281°41'03" Earth-Moon-Sun 2019-01-06, 0:50:18 285°08'05"