When the SSGEOS was founded in June 2022, it took over the research from Ditrianum, which at that time had gained recognition for their accurate anticipation of large earthquakes. Their first two experimental forecasts in April and May 2015 (both followed by M 7.8 earthquakes) followed on an initial study of geometry between the planets, the Sun and the Moon that they started in June 2014, after obvious temporal clustering of strong earthquakes occurred on 23-24 June of that year. See also the proposed mechanism.
In this article we present the data and statistics that demonstrate an obvious relationship between the occurrence of planetary conjunctions (alignments) and major (M ≥ 7) earthquakes. A similar comprehensive study has not been done in recent decades. The research that probably comes closest was done by RCA radio engineer John Henry Nelson in the 1940s and 1950s, who discovered an obvious correlation between specific planetary positions and atmospheric disturbance, resulting in short-wave radio signal interference and blackouts. A recent study utilizing AI (RFR and ANN) confirms the partial influence of the planets on seismic activity on Earth.
It should be noted that the data and statistics presented here do not fully reflect the SSGEOS forecast model, which also includes lunar geometry and specific right angle geometry. In this respect, the data and statistics merely serve as a general indication of the significance of planetary conjunctions — in particular their clustering in time — in the Solar System.
The following analysis is based on M ≥ 7 earthquakes from 2011 to February 2023. According to the EMSC database a total of 182 of these major earthquakes occurred in this time-period. The data-set can be downloaded here.
For each earthquake a narrow time-window of +/- 1 day has been used to scan for planetary conjunctions < 2°. If a planetary conjunction was not found, the time-window was extended to a maximum of +/- 2 days. For 12 earthquakes the time-window had to be extended and 3 earthquakes occurred without a planetary conjunction in the extended time-window.
From the 182 earthquakes for which we analyzed the specified time-windows, 153 earthquakes occurred with one or more planetary conjunctions ≤ 1° within 2 days, which is 84.1%. 148 of these earthquakes occurred within 1 day, which is 81.3%. We do not rely on these high percentages though, because a tolerance of 2 ° with respect to Mercury is high and leads to multiple conjunction days when outer planets move near the Sun in a conjunction with Mercury. For this reason, any tolerance higher than 2 °, such as applied in this peer-reviewed paper, is useless.
Of significance is that 135 earthquakes occurred at the time of a convergence, i.e. two or more planetary conjunctions ≤ 2° within 2 days, which is 74.2%. 134 of these earthquakes occurred within 1 day, which is 73.6%. This is most significant and the percentage correlates well with the results obtained from ANN that gets an accuracy of 68.3%. We emphasize convergence of planetary and lunar conjunctions, such as on 4-5 February 2023, because this is very specific and unique geometry that does not occur often.