Mw 7.2 Eastern New Guinea Region, P.N.G.
updated 30 May 2022

On 6 May 2019 a major earthquake occurred in Eastern New Guinea Region, P.N.G. at a depth of 141 km. The seismic event occurred at 21:19:36 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.2.

On 30 April 2019 the critical alignment Mercury-Venus-Neptune occurred just after a lunar peak. The next lunar peak that followed on the alignment occurred on 4 May and reached index 16, after which the major earthquake occurred. The alignments involving Mars on 3 and 5 May are not considered critical. It was the third occurrence of an alignment with Mercury, Venus and Neptune in 2019. The fourth occurence on 25 May 2019 was followed by a great earthquake in Peru.

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Mercury-Venus-Neptune     2019-04-30, 21:29:28  346°35'33"
Mars-Sun-Saturn           2019-05-03, 14:15:16  284°55'21"
Mars-Earth-Jupiter        2019-05-05, 21:36:16  263°06'50"
Sun-Mercury-Venus         2019-05-06,  7:35:40  340°21'13"
Sun-Mercury-Neptune       2019-05-07, 17:02:02  346°16'39"
Earth-Mercury-Uranus      2019-05-08, 14:16:59   33°09'37"

Earth-Moon-Neptune        2019-04-30,  9:58:27  347°44'54"
Earth-Moon-Venus          2019-05-02, 14:00:58   14°10'46"
Earth-Moon-Mercury        2019-05-03,  8:07:21   23°37'17"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         2019-05-04,  1:40:17   32°54'18"
Earth-Moon-Sun            2019-05-04, 22:08:25   43°53'46"
Moon-Earth-Jupiter        2019-05-07, 20:41:06  262°57'41"
Earth-Moon-Mars           2019-05-07, 23:20:05   84°27'33"
SSGI chart
SSGI COMMON graph of critical planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry