1481 Rhodes Earthquake

[Jim Eshelman]

May 3, 1481, 3:00 AM, Rhodes, Greece

On the Greek isle of Rhodes, a magnitude 7.1 quake occurred in the middle of the night, igniting a small tsunami (with consequent flooding), killing about 30,000 people. Rhodes experienced a series of earthquakes from mid-March 1481 to January 1482, but this was the big one!

The quake occurred just as Saturn set, paran a Moon-Venus conjunction on IC.

Rhodes was fending off attacks by the Turks when this occurred. A measurement of the scope of damage from the earthquake is that the Kastello, or palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, had to be rebuild immediately.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)
Year: Cansolar (Dormant.)
Bridge (None.)

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
Uranus sq. MC 0°42' [conj. non-angular Neptune 2°50' in mundo]
Mercury sq. Asc 1°56'
Pluto more widely angular
Moon-Saturn op. 1°22' in mundo
Moon-Pluto op. 1°29'
Moon-Jupiter sq. 2°12' in mundo

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Jupiter on Asc 1°25'
-- Jupiter-Uranus sq. 2°01' PVP
Saturn & Pluto more widely angular
-- Saturn-Pluto conj. 2°12' in mundo

Week: Arilunar (Dormant.)

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
p MC conj. t Mars 0°52'
p Asc op. s Mars 1°58'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+3}
p MC conj. s Saturn 0°29'
p Asc conj. t Uranus 0°39', op. t Mercury 1°32'
-- t Mercury-Uranus op. 0°53'