2009 Review
Looking at 2009 quake activity you can see three main factors, those being the Mercury/sun conjunction, the moon's conjunctions with Saturn, and the conjunctions of the moon with Jupiter (and Neptune). On July 15th, there was a 7.8r quake when Mercury conjoined the sun. There were two 7+ quakes as we were closest to the sun on Jnauary 3rd. As the moon conjoined Saturn in January, February and April we see 7.4, 7.2 and 6.3r quakes. The 6.3r quake was the Italian quake in April. In May the moon conjoined Saturn on the 31st, and there was a 7.3r quake on the 28th.The video below was posted Feb 14, 2009, in which I pointed to the conjunction on April 6th as an earthquake target due to the moon/Saturn conjunctions. The video shows a review of the quake statistics for 2008 and the conjunctions that led me to make that.
In March the equinox was on the 22nd and the moon conjoined Jupiter on the 21st. there was a 7.6r quake on the 19th. The moon conjoined Jupiter on Aug 6th, and there was a 7.1r quake on the 9th, and a 7.5r quake on the 10th. The Sept 2 conjunction saw a 7.0r quake. The Sept 29 conjunction saw an 8.1 on the 29th and 7.6r on the 30th. The 7.0 r quake on Oct 24th preceeded the conjunction on the 26th. The 6.8r quake of Nov 24 followed the conjunction on Nov 23. The last conjunction of the year was on Dec 21, at the solstice, when the volcano oozed. As to California quakes, you will note that the largest quakes of the year there have occured at the new moon in Sept and the full moon in early Oct. The moon was new on the 18th just before the equinox on the 22nd. There was a 5.1r quake in Calexico on the 19th, and a 4.2r there on the 20th. The sun conjoined Mewrcury, and the moon conjoined Saturn at the same time at the new moon. At the full moon (4th) we see 5+ quakes on the first and third. The last big quake there was on March 24th following the equinox and the moon's conjunction with Jupiter. On Aug 7th there was a 4.9r quake in northern California after the moon passsed Jupiter and Neptune.
The video above was posted Dec 13, 2008. Looking at the astronomical situation for 2009, and picking one day that I thought there would be a California quake, I picked the new moon Sept 18th. I did that rather than bracketing the whole week due to the sun's conjoining Mercury and Saturn, and the Equinox following close by. The Calexico quake on the 19th was the largest quake in California this year at the time. It was followed on the 20th by a 4.2 aftershock. The largest California quake in 2008 was just a 5.5r event, in 2007 it was 5.6r, and in 2006 only 4.5. That is because in 2005 there were 6.6 and 7.2r quakes there. We have now see three quakes above 5.0r since the new moon. (That new moon was the second after the tidal peak.)
 The full moon was on Oct 4th, and we see 5+ quakes on the 1st and 3rd. There was a 'whole mess' of quakes there from the 1st through the 6th. Notice that both of these same areas saw ~4.0r quakes on the full moon, Nov 2nd. The Calexico area is seeing a swarm of quakes as the moon passes Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus (Nov 25).
 The Dec 30th magnitude 5.8 quake occurred in the same location as the Sept 19 quake and was the largest in California this year. It happened just before a lunar eclipse.
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