Lone Pine Earthquake 1872

[Jim Eshelman]

March 26, 1872, 10:30 UT, near Lone Pine, CA, 36.7N, 118.1W, magnitude 7.4 to 7.9 (estimated). This makes it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in California. (Compare the 7.9 Fort Tejon quake in 1857 and the 7.8 San Francisco quake in 1906.)

27 died (about 10% of the Lone Pine population) and 56 were injured. Damages were about $250,000 ($30 million in 2016): 52 of 59 houses were destroyed in Lone Pine, with damage to other communities farther away. (I'm using Lone Pine itself for the charts below.)

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Venus sq. (2°58')

Year: Cansolar
Moon-Saturn op. (0°59' in mundo)
Venus on M (2°33')

Bridge (None.)

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
Moon-Neptune sq. (0°35')
Moon-Jupiter op. (2°56')

Week: Liblunar (almost the minute of the quake)
(Among other things, this is a great chart for buildings collapsing.)
Neptune sq. Asc (0°55')
Moon sq. Asc (1°03')
-- Moon-Neptune op. (0°08')
Jupiter on Dsc (2°30')
Uranus on Dsc (2°43')
Saturn on Asc (3°02')
-- Ju/Ur on Dsc (0°07')
-- Sa/Ur on horizon (0°09')
-- Jupiter-Saturn op. (0°16')
Pluto on IC (9°23')
Moon-Mercury op. (1°58')
Moon-Saturn sq. (2°39')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (2°55')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Asc op. s. Mercury (1°19')
p. MC conj. p. Moon (1°35')
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t. Venus conj. s. Moon (0°30')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian
p. Moon-Jupiter conj. (0°11')


SUMMARY
Year (Capsolar): (Dormant.) Moon-Venus.
Year (Cansolar): Venus. Moon-Saturn.
Bridge: (None.)
Month: (Dormant.) Moon-Jupiter Moon-Neptune.
Week: Moon Jupiter Uranus Neptune (Saturn Pluto). Moon-Mercury Moon-Jupiter Moon-Saturn Moon-Neptune Jupiter-Saturn Ju/Ur Sa/Ur.
Day (Capsolar): Moon Mercury (CapQ). Moon-Venus (transit).
Day (CanQ): Moon-Jupiter.

[Jim Eshelman]

United Airlines Flight 232 crashed due to failure and disintegration of its tail-mounted engine, on July 19, 1989 in Sioux City, IA; specifically, 42N24'29", 96W23'02". Of 296 people on board, 111 died in the crash and one more (from his crash injuries) a month later; 172 others were injured.

One distinction of this crash is that the crew did pretty much everything right, so the crash is held up as a quality example of "successful crew resource management" for how they handled the emergency. For example, the plane was brought to earth without steering capability. The whole tale of their journey to the ground is quite fascinating (in a terrifying sort of way).

3:16 PM CDT. I can't find the time the crash actually occurred. A CBS news broadcast from that time referred to "a harrowing 44-minute decent," so we would be safe in picking approximately 4:00 PM CDT as the crash time.

Astrologically, what distinguishes this event is an enormous presence of Sun. Sun is angular four times and aspects Moon three times. If this event were collated with the formal list of studied vehicular catastrophes in SMA, these seven Suns would overwhelm the list. I think they are not characteristic of the crash itself, but of the heroism and expertise which saved over half the people when total loss of life was far more likely. In that sense, this is not a typical vehicular catastrophe at all.

Year: Capsolar
Sun on MC (0°46')
-- Moon-Mars conj. (0°25')
-- Moon-Sun sq. (2°29')
-- Sun-Mars sq. (2°54')
Mercury sq. Asc (2°01')
Jupiter on Asc (7°44')
Mars on Asc (8°22')
-- Ma/Ju on Asc (0°19')

Bridge
t. Pluto conj. Capsolar Dsc (1°24')
t. Uranus conj. Cansolar MC (1°05'), sq. Cansolar Asc (0°10')

Quarter: Cansolar
Uranus on MC (2°55')
Moon-Uranus conj. (2°56')

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
Moon-Sun op. (1°22')
Moon-Mercury op. (1°42')

Week: Liblunar
Sun sq. MC (0°58')
Moon on IC (4°48')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transit
p. MC conj. t. Sun (0°51'), conj. t. Mercury (0°56') [midpoint 0°03'], sq. p. Mars (0°14'), sq. s. Mars (0°30'), sq. s. Moon (0°55')
-- t. Sun sq. s. Mars (0°21'), sq. s. Moon (0°04')
p. Asc sq. s. Sun (1°10')
p. EP op. p. Moon (0°16')
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t. Pluto conj. s. Dsc (1°24')
t. Moon sq. s. Asc (1°59')
-- Moon-Pluto sq. (0°35')
t. Sun sq. s. Moon (0°04')
-- sq. s. Mars (0°21')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transit
p. MC conj. t. Uranus (0°21'), s. Uranus (0°15'), p. Moon (1°47')
--------------------------------
t. Uranus conj. s. MC (1°05'), sq. s. Asc (0°10')


SUMMARY
Year: Sun Mercury (Mars Jupiter). Moon-Sun-Mars Ma/Ju.
Bridge: Pluto (Cap). Uranus (Can).
Quarter: Uranus. Moon-Uranus.
Month: (Dormant.) Moon-Sun Moon-Mercury.
Week (Liblunar): Sun (Moon).
Day (Capsolar): Moon Sunx2 Mercury Mars Sun-Mars (CapQ). Moon Pluto Moon-Sun Moon-Pluto Sun-Mars (transits).
Day (Cansolar): Moon Uranus (CanQ) Uranus (transit).