Mw 6.5 South Sandwich Islands Region

On 5 April 2019 a strong earthquake occurred at the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 60 km. The seismic event occurred at 16:14:19 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.5.

While low 6 magnitude earthquakes occurred above average, possibly due to the 45° angle between Uranus and Neptune, this stronger earthquake occurred after Earth lined up with Mercury and Neptune on 2 April. The Moon subsequently aligned with Neptune on 3 April, which generated a stronger electromagnetic charge.

Sun-Venus-Saturn          2019-03-31, 15:51:43  283°55'51"
Earth-Mercury-Neptune     2019-04-02,  9:54:11  346°52'48"

Earth-Moon-Saturn         2019-03-29,  4:29:26  289°26'20"
Earth-Moon-Venus          2019-04-02,  5:55:59  337°28'53"
Earth-Moon-Neptune        2019-04-03,  0:52:21  346°54'07"
Earth-Moon-Mercury        2019-04-03,  1:24:08  347°10'00"
Earth-Moon-Sun            2019-04-05,  8:16:57   15°00'18"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         2019-04-06, 15:40:23   31°20'29"
					

SSGI COMMON graph of critical planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry