Mw 6.5 Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

On 19 June 2019 a strong earthquake occurred at the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km. The seismic event occurred at 07:01:42 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.5.

Major seismic activity had already occurred on 15 June due to a series of planetary alignments and associated lunar geometry. Since 14 June Earth had been involved in three alignments that are considered critical to very critical, such as Earth-Mercury-Mars (see 2015 and 2017). The Mercury-Earth-Saturn alignment on 16 June coincided with a high lunar peak, partially due to the Moon's alignment with Jupiter. Given the critical planetary and lunar geometry from 14 to 17 June, there was certainly the potential for seismic activity in the higher 7 to 8 magnitude range from about 17 to 20 June.

#HighLunarPeak

Mars-Earth-Saturn         2019-06-14, 15:24:36  288°41'49"
Mercury-Venus-Uranus      2019-06-15,  9:04:58   32°25'43"
Mercury-Earth-Saturn      2019-06-16, 13:49:31  288°34'29"
Earth-Mercury-Mars        2019-06-18, 16:10:58  111°16'15"
Mercury-Sun-Uranus        2019-06-21, 20:20:14   32°55'30"

Moon-Earth-Uranus         2019-06-13, 12:51:06   34°58'45"
Moon-Earth-Venus          2019-06-15, 23:59:09   68°11'39"
Earth-Moon-Jupiter        2019-06-16, 18:44:03  258°25'46"
Moon-Earth-Sun            2019-06-17,  8:03:38   85°36'35"
Earth-Moon-Saturn         2019-06-19,  3:23:36  288°24'29"
Moon-Earth-Mars           2019-06-19,  9:51:31  111°44'27"
Moon-Earth-Mercury        2019-06-19, 10:46:32  112°12'43"
					

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