Mw 7.0 Southern Peru
updated 30 May 2022

On 1 March 2019 a major earthquake occurred in Southern Peru at a depth of 286 km. The seismic event occurred at 08:50:44 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.0.

In the days leading up to this major earthquake, critcal planetary geometry first occurred on 24 February with a quadruple alignment of Mars, Mercury, the Sun and Jupiter. Lunar geometry had already peaked a day earlier, so a seismic increase could be expected to occur with the next lunar peak. This occurred on 27 February and it was a high peak (index 18), partially due to the Moon's alignment with Jupiter. The Venus-Mercury-Mars alignment a day later may have been a contributor.

#highlunarpeak

Mars-Sun-Jupiter          2019-02-23, 11:14:19  250°41'42"
Mercury-Sun-Jupiter       2019-02-24,  7:09:01  250°45'38"
Sun-Mercury-Mars          2019-02-24,  8:40:45   71°09'43"
Mars-Mercury-Jupiter      2019-02-24, 15:18:19  250°54'09"
Venus-Mercury-Mars        2019-02-28, 16:13:23   67°26'11"
Mercury-Sun-Saturn        2019-03-01, 10:28:08  283°01'16"
Mercury-Venus-Jupiter     2019-03-02, 17:08:14  253°19'29"

Moon-Earth-Uranus         2019-02-23, 14:45:52   29°17'47"
Moon-Earth-Mars           2019-02-24,  2:47:15   36°15'47"
Earth-Moon-Jupiter        2019-02-27, 14:08:01  261°26'44"
Earth-Moon-Saturn         2019-03-01, 17:54:51  287°32'46"
Earth-Moon-Venus          2019-03-02, 21:30:12  301°09'45"
					
SSGI chart
SSGI COMMON graph of critical planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry