Strong earthquake M 6.0 - 170 km NE of Madang, Papua New Guinea
2022-04-28
13:21:13 (UTC)
3.952°S 146.660°E
10.0 km depth
2022-04-28
13:21:13 (UTC)
3.952°S 146.660°E
10.0 km depth
Last week saw 1 M6, a M6.0 in PNG.Last week saw 3 M6, with the highest being a M6.7 in Nicaragua.
In the usual area, there were 3 out of 125 earthquakes worldwide equal to or greater than 4.5 and 1702 out of 2102 quakes of all sizes.
Percentage: 81.0%
Seismic increase usually follows (2-3 days) after alignments (critical positions in general) have occurred. Often seismic activity first drops after which a sudden, short increase occurs. But it depends on the type of alignment (which planets are involved).
Earth direction is no requirement. There's no correlation between flares and large quakes; nothing in Dec 2004, no big quakes 3-10 Nov 2003 with biggest flare (Earth-directed) ever recorded. If a flare is followed by a big quake (2011, 2017), it's due to planetary positions. @ditrianum
Despite X-class solar flares on 17 and 20 April, seismic activity in the week after has been low (no direct correlation) with only two strong shakes on 21 April (M 6.7) and 28 April (M 6.0). See the earthquake reports on the website (Global Earthquake Forecast | 2022 earthquake reports | Ditrianum) for more information.
So far, seismic activity in April has been well below average with a M 6.0+ earthquake every 3.75 days (long-time average is 2.7 days).
1/3 The Sun has been very active as of late. Two X-class solar flares occurred on 17 and 20 April respectively and today another one occurred. @ditrianum
2/3 From SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids: "The sun produced another X-class solar flare today. Even though the responsible sunspot was located behind the edge of the sun, enough radiation reached our planet to cause a strong shortwave radio blackout." @ditrianum
3/3 We're curious to see what will happen seismically with the critical planetary geometry today and tomorrow. @ditrianum
That's because they don't look at planetary positions under the assumption (no proof) that only the gravitational force between the planets should be considered. If they were to study Venus, a correlation with M7+ quakes would be revealed more tight than the result of this study.
Solar flares affect entire solar system, thus all planets. E.g: 2014/6/10, major flares. 6/23 convergence of 3 alignments with Mercury and Venus. Result: 6 quakes within hours ranging from 6.0 to 7.9 + meteo-tsunami in Mediterranean (6/23-27) due to "atmospheric forcing".
From 4 to 6 May a convergence of critical planetary geometry may trigger strong to major seismic activity potentially reaching mid to high 7, maybe 8 magnitude. A seismic increase may occur as early as 4-5 May, but the most critical days are probably 6 to 8 May.
MANILA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted Davao Oriental province in southern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
The institute initially reported the magnitude as 6.2 before revising it down to 5.7. The quake, which occurred at 5:41 a.m. local time (2141 GMT Wednesday), hit at a depth of 96 km, about 136 km southeast of Tarragona town of Davao Oriental province.
The quake was also felt in nearby provinces on Mindanao island. The institute said the tectonic quake will trigger aftershocks but not cause damage.
The Philippines has frequent seismic activity due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire."
▪︎This was the third earthquake in the region of Lukatan Philippines According with the latest USGS data it was updated to M5.9