

A few months ago while doing research for an astrology article that I hope to have published in the Mountain Astrologer (it actually ended up in the ISAR International Astrologer published in August 2012), I discovered what looked like a significant sun sign effect that seemed to parallel earthquake activity. From a pool of around 250 earthquake charts that caused at least 800 deaths for each, I found that the percentage of charts with the sun anywhere from 0d45m to 4d45m of Capricorn were several times more numerous than the statistical average for a four degree section of the zodiac.



A few months later, after publishing about 20 hubs, I discovered a Sydney, Australia hub author named claudiafox who had published a piece related to the very same phenomena. From that point I decided that more research should be done related to that anomaly.



Initially using earthquakes in the 6.7 and above magnitude range for the 20 year period of 1992.0 to 2012.0, I found that the effective range was narrower and its center had progressed a degree or two forward. It was my impression that, unlike the siderial motion of the stars relative to our seasons that moves backward in time by a rate of 50 seconds of arc a year, the center of the range had moved forward at the rate of 72 seconds of arc each year (give or take 24 seconds). I wanted to come up with a theory as to why there was such a solar effect to earthquakes and what would cause it to move forward in time, but can't supply you with one.



As an example of how things have progressed: One of my earliest hubs attempted to predict an earthquake off the coast of southeastern Japan around the same time of the year as the double earthquakes of 8+ magnitude that happened there on December 23 & 24, 1854. The hub related the solar effect on earthquakes (also noting a similar relationship that was evident during the Sumatra quake of 2004) and determined that there was a likely earthquake coming in the area within a window that was a bit larger than the dates from December 24 and through the 27th. The expected earthquake happened on January 1st, just 4 days after my window closed. There was also a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Siberia within the window, but the size of that quake was just under the predicted range estimated. As can be seen from the data below that gives the sun's position for each of the quakes that fall within range of this solar effect, the center of any proposed range should be at least a day further into the future (12/27.0, rather than 12/26.0) than earlier proposed. The expected percentage of events in the 1deg53min window (3CAP52-5CAP45) out of the 360 degree zodiac is 0.5% and the actual occurrence was 1.4% or 2.7Xs greater. Interestingly, at the time of the 9.2 magnitude Sumatra quake of 12/26/2004, my estimate of the center of the window was with the sun at 4CAP41. The sun at the time was located at 4CAP36 or just 5 minutes or 1/12th of a degree before that point at the time of the quake. A good depiction of how much energy was released from that quake can be seen in the pie chart at the top of this article.



