Mw 7.5 New Britain Region, P.N.G.

On 14 May 2019 a major earthquake occurred in New Britain Region, P.N.G. at a depth of 10 km. The seismic event occurred at 12:58:25 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 7.5.

Critical planetary geometry first occurred from 7 to 10 May, in particular the alignment with the Sun, Venus and Neptune, which also preceded a similar sized earthquake in September 2018. Lunar geometry peaked high on the 7th with the Sun-Mercury-Neptune alignment, after which Earth aligned with Mercury and Uranus. Despite the fact that the Moon made critical geometry on 7 and 9 May, only two low 6 magnitude earthquakes occurred. The earthquake did not occur until after the Moon aligned with Neptune on 13 May.

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Sun-Mercury-Neptune       2019-05-07, 17:02:02  346°16'39"
Earth-Mercury-Uranus      2019-05-08, 14:16:59   33°09'37"
Sun-Venus-Neptune         2019-05-10,  1:24:43  346°17'30"
Sun-Mercury-Uranus        2019-05-16, 22:46:57   32°31'56"

Moon-Earth-Jupiter        2019-05-07, 20:41:06  262°57'41"
Earth-Moon-Mars           2019-05-07, 23:20:05   84°27'33"
Moon-Earth-Saturn         2019-05-09, 20:20:44  290°10'28"
Moon-Earth-Neptune        2019-05-13, 22:57:47  348°03'44"
					

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