Mw 8.3 North Atlantic

On 2 February 1816 a great earthquake occurred in the North Atlantic. The seismic event occurred at 00:40 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 8.3.

On 26 January 1816 the Earth-Venus-Neptune conjunction occurred. The direct trigger however, was the lunar geometry with Mars and Jupiter on 29 January and 2 February. On 29 January the Moon made right angles with the two planets and two semi-right angles on 2 February. This is very critical geometry if it occurs in an opposing fasion, which it did at the time, as Earth was in close conjunction with Mars and Jupiter. The lunar geometry on 29 January 1816 resulted in a lunar peak that reached index 17.

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Earth-Venus-Neptune       1816-01-26,  9:09:44  263°47'25"
Mars-Sun-Neptune          1816-01-28, 18:56:56  262°30'21"
Mercury-Sun-Venus         1816-02-03,  9:41:20  204°18'39"
Earth-Sun-Saturn          1816-02-04, 14:29:31  317°18'48"
Mercury-Sun-Jupiter       1816-02-04, 17:23:43  211°41'09"

Earth-Moon-Sun            1816-01-29, 14:36:34  311°13'51"
Earth-Moon-Saturn         1816-01-30,  1:26:38  316°38'55"
Earth-Moon-Mercury        1816-01-30, 19:17:20  325°32'04"

Earth:   Moon-Jupiter     1816-01-29, 15:26:59   90°00'00"
Earth:   Moon-Mars        1816-01-29, 19:34:49   90°00'00"
Earth:   Moon-Jupiter     1816-02-02, 10:47:10  135°00'00"
Earth:   Moon-Mars        1816-02-02, 18:34:23   45°00'00"
					

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


SSGI SUM graph of critical planetary (PG) geometry