Mw 6.0 South Sandwich Islands Region

On 6 March 2022 a strong earthquake occurred in the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 20 km. The seismic event occurred at 20:14:31 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.0.

A day earlier a warning was issued for possible strong to major seismic activity due to a near convergence of three planetary conjunctions on 5 and 6 March. Two strong earthquakes occurred on the 6th and 7th as a result, but the tremors could potentially have been stronger. See also the Telegram post below.

Sun-Mercury-Mars          2022-03-05, 14:10:53  270°07'02"
Earth-Sun-Jupiter         2022-03-05, 14:11:17  344°40'38"
Earth-Venus-Mars          2022-03-06,  8:16:40  299°45'41"

Earth-Moon-Neptune        2022-03-03, 10:57:17  352°11'41"
Earth-Moon-Uranus         2022-03-07,  5:59:05   41°28'12"
					

SSGI depiction of planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry