Factors:
Blot Echoes.
Within 5 days of New Moon.
Basis on short term study focusing on the relationship between lunations and the rate of earthquakes greater than M6.0.
New moons did indicate that there was a correlation between the number of earthquakes and the period prior to a new moon.
this correlation was significant at the 95% confidence level. The P-Value is 0.047303. The result is significant at p < 0.05.
Conclusion:
Earthquakes generally tend to increase as the new moon approaches,
New moon/earthquakes graph: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B83EkoitOiKQYjJoZ3hObW1vbUU/view?usp=sharing