Nomadicfred – May 26 2020: Near the coast of Antofagasta, Chile

Oh and thanks to lester and hookecho on the Moon/Sun Link/routine, if you look at the time 03:35:34 I have 3:40:00

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20200605T0340

The Moon’s position at its zenith in relation to an observer

Well I think the rules say its not a hit, which is why I just commentated, as far as the moon location routine,

To setup a timeframe I look at the OLR the Phi and the Moon and sun locations

For the OLR I am looking at a bounce from one extreme to another starting from the negative or pink side to the brown side when I see that I am close to location and the when.

Ideally I want to see the Phi angle drop/rise into the 180 range…. I have no idea on why , just following what I have heard.. this sets up the time start period

to get the time end period I go to the timeanddate.com site and starting at my current time, I walk the sun and moon forward and look for my exit within a 7 day period set my the contest rules where the sun and moon are close to my location or at least the moon, if I have a time where both the sun and moon are overhead I use that as my exit time, if I have the moon (within that 7 days of the contest rule) I go with the moon.

I limit the timeframe by the lows in the area… if from windy.com I have a low that is gone by the 3rd day then I bring in the exit time within the 12 hours of the low being gone and then match it to what the moon and sun are doing

I am still working on a better way to judge the magnitude though , right now its a 30 year average of the one at 6.0 or better for the geographical area and then I do .5 above and below that to make the 1 point range for the contest rules. I know there was something on the Kp index to put in there as well, both on the frequency of the quakes and the magnitude (moreso magnitude) but I lost my notes on that. but I think it went something like low Kp higher Magnitude cause the energy has to be somewhere… thank you for the reply lester