Frequent visitors to this site will already be well aware that we are firmly convinced that major earthquakes cluster around the time of the Full or New Moon. However there is another, but less well known period around the time when the Moon is 50% illuminated (or square to the Earth and Sun) that can also give rise to major quakes. This was especially apparent today as a massive earthquake of 8.0 magnitude shook wide areas of China and beyond.

Although first reports indicated that casualties were low it is now reported that over 10,000 people may have died in the disaster with thousands of others made homeless.

As it is the incident serves as an apt illustration of a mini period of seismic danger that not many are aware of.

For more on the Chinese earthquake please turn to the link below:

[1] Chinese earthquake.