West Gate Bridge collapse

[Jim Eshelman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Gate_Bridge#History
Oct 15, 1970, 11:50 AM AEST, Melbourne, Australia (37S49'46", 144E53'53")
Crosses the Yarra River. During construction, the hundred-yard span between two piers collapsed, falling 164 feet into the river "with an explosion of gas, dust and mangled metal that shook buildings hundreds of metres away... The roar of the impact, the explosion, and the fire that followed could be clearly heard over [12 miles] away." 35 workers killed, 18 injured. "Australia's worst industrial accident."

Bizarrely, Mercury is all over this one! (And traffic wasn't even flowing.) The charts are decent even if not exciting. They don't seem to touch the general scope and there is no serious hint of the fire.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Saturn.

Year/Quarter: Cansolar {0? +1?}
Mercury on Dsc 1°33'
Sun, Mars, Jupiter more widely foreground
-- Mars-Jupiter sq. 2°29'
-- Sun-Jupiter sq. 2°35'
Moon-Pluto sq. 1°05' in mundo
Moon-Uranus sq. 1°43'

Bridge {+2}
t Saturn sq. s Asc Jul 3 to Nov 9

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Saturn on Dsc 0°43'
Jupiter on EP 0°31'
Neptune on Asc 3°20'
Venus more widely foreground
-- Venus-Saturn sq. 1°07'
-- Venus-Jupiter conj. 1°15'
Moon-Sun sq. 1°32'

Week: Arilunar {+1}
(This occurred 9 minutes before the event.
Mercury on MC 1°25'
Moon, Sun, Uranus also foreground
-- Moon-Sun op. 1°00' in mundo
-- Mercury-Uranus op. 2°26'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0 / +2 = +2}
(Jupiter's exaltation degree on MC)
p MC sq. t Jupiter -1°11' , sq. p Moon +1°37' (midpoint 0°13')
p Asc conj. t Neptune 1°56', s Neptune 0°52'
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t Saturn sq. s Asc 0°08'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+1}
p EP op. t Sun 1°04'
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t Sun conj. s MC 0°15'
(A Full Moon occurred a few hours earlier, so gravitational stress was greater. Astrologically, but not astrophysically, this was concentrated on this site.)