Mw 6.1 New Britain Region

On 2 September 2022 a strong earthquake occurred in New Britain Region at a depth of 126 km. The seismic event occurred at 22:39:52 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.1.

While critical planetary geometry occurred from 26 to 28 August, Earth was in a close conjunction with Mercury and Jupiter and the conjunction was exact on 3 September. The tremor occurred just after a lunar peak that reached index 14.

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Venus-Mars-Neptune        2022-08-26, 11:47:24  352°26'09"
Venus-Mars-Jupiter        2022-08-28,  2:43:54  353°50'25"
Venus-Earth-Saturn        2022-08-28, 18:10:22  320°32'51"
Mercury-Earth-Jupiter     2022-09-03,  1:37:51    6°20'34"

Earth-Moon-Mercury        2022-08-29, 15:26:03  183°05'28"
Moon-Earth-Jupiter        2022-08-29, 22:17:51    6°46'01"
Moon-Earth-Uranus         2022-09-02,  2:23:23   48°34'33"
Moon-Earth-Mars           2022-09-03, 11:41:54   67°34'10"
					

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


SSGI SUM graph of critical planetary (PG) geometry