On 11 June 2023 a strong earthquake occurred at Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 114 km. The seismic event occurred at 09:54:45 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.2.
The estimated primary trigger of this seismic event is a planetary and lunar conjunction on 9 June.
Planetary conjunctions occurred on 7 and 9 June with Sun-Mercury-Saturn and Mercury-Sun-Mars respectively. They converged with three lunar conjunctions from 7 to 9 June involving Venus, Mars and Saturn respectively. The earthquake occurred at the time of a lunar conjunction with Neptune.
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Earth-Mercury-Uranus 2023-06-04, 19:48:13 50°05'31" Sun-Mercury-Saturn 2023-06-07, 10:52:19 330°55'48" Mercury-Sun-Mars 2023-06-09, 19:47:46 160°28'57" Sun-Mercury-Neptune 2023-06-13, 05:04:54 355°20'34" Venus-Mercury-Jupiter 2023-06-13, 20:17:20 29°19'08" Sun: Mercury-Uranus 2023-06-04, 05:28:33 90°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Uranus 2023-06-04, 09:40:37 135°00'00" Mercury: Venus-Saturn 2023-06-08, 16:35:33 135°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Jupiter 2023-06-10, 03:42:01 45°00'00" Venus: Mercury-Saturn 2023-06-10, 06:11:28 45°00'00" Sun: Venus-Neptune 2023-06-11, 13:17:26 135°00'00" Earth: Venus-Jupiter 2023-06-11, 15:46:13 90°00'00" Mercury: Earth-Saturn 2023-06-11, 20:42:59 90°00'00" Sun: Mercury-Earth 2023-06-12, 04:21:44 90°00'00" Mercury: Mars-Jupiter 2023-06-13, 07:37:36 135°00'00" Moon-Earth-Sun 2023-06-04, 02:57:46 72°57'09" Moon-Earth-Venus 2023-06-07, 10:55:56 121°27'12" Moon-Earth-Mars 2023-06-08, 01:30:40 130°19'38" Earth-Moon-Saturn 2023-06-09, 21:40:15 336°50'10" Earth-Moon-Neptune 2023-06-11, 08:37:03 357°15'40" Earth: Moon-Venus 2023-06-04, 03:34:37 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Jupiter 2023-06-04, 12:49:07 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mars 2023-06-04, 20:30:52 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Neptune 2023-06-05, 02:42:04 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Uranus 2023-06-05, 15:48:51 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mercury 2023-06-05, 17:42:59 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Saturn 2023-06-06, 19:06:20 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Sun 2023-06-07, 10:23:06 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Jupiter 2023-06-07, 15:54:37 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Neptune 2023-06-08, 04:38:22 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Uranus 2023-06-08, 17:59:57 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mercury 2023-06-09, 03:43:24 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Sun 2023-06-10, 18:56:12 90°00'00" Earth: Moon-Venus 2023-06-10, 19:17:39 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Jupiter 2023-06-10, 20:20:01 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mars 2023-06-11, 08:36:57 135°00'00" Earth: Moon-Uranus 2023-06-11, 22:55:44 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Mercury 2023-06-12, 19:08:29 45°00'00" Earth: Moon-Saturn 2023-06-13, 03:59:11 45°00'00"