Mw 6.6 Southeast of Loyalty Islands

On 26 May 2022 a strong earthquake occurred Southeast of Loyalty Islands at a depth of 15 km. The seismic event occurred at 15:38:00 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.6.

Planetary geometry was critical on 20 and 21 May with a total convergence of four planetary conjunctions. Although a seismic increase was anticipated for the days immediately following this geometry, more critical were considered the days from 25 to 27 May due to the high lunar peak on 24-25 May, which was the next lunar peak that followed on the critical planetary geometry. The seismic response to this planetary and lunar geometry was a series of three strong earthquakes on 21-22 May peaking Mw 6.3 South of Fiji Islands, and a series of four strong to major earthquaks on 26-27 May, peaking Mw 7.2 in Southern Peru.

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Sun-Venus-Saturn          2022-05-20,  6:31:19  318°53'15"
Mercury-Venus-Neptune     2022-05-20, 14:42:49  353°46'22"
Sun-Mercury-Earth         2022-05-21, 19:10:54  240°24'38"
Mercury-Venus-Jupiter     2022-05-21, 23:26:55  356°30'48"
Sun-Mars-Saturn           2022-05-25, 10:44:07  319°02'55"

Earth-Moon-Saturn         2022-05-22,  6:46:04  324°47'35"
Earth-Moon-Neptune        2022-05-24, 12:11:34  354°48'43"
Earth-Moon-Mars           2022-05-24, 21:02:25  359°37'39"
Earth-Moon-Jupiter        2022-05-25,  1:57:48    2°17'23"
					

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


SSGI SUM graph of critical planetary (PG) geometry