Earthquakes happen due to terrestrial reasons.Do planets induce natural calamities?.Ancients believed so .What vedic astrology can say on the planet positionat East sichuan on the fateful day of 12th May 2008?.

Moon &Mars - There was an absolute conjunction of Moon and Mars on the day before.On 12th May Moon's position exactly coincided the descending node( KETU )and aspected by RAHU.Vedic astrology treats this conjuction very badly. It makes havocs since it happens in 12th house.May cause natural calamities Apart from all this Moon is in most malefic point (Gandadha sandi)in navamsaka division.. Pluto is also in such a position.

Sun is exalted and powerful and in it's own star Krittika.It makes venus near combustion.

Saturn in Lagna and Mandi in 2nd house-Ascendent is coinciding with saturn and surrounded by malefics Yoga. This is not a good position. All inner planets and outer planets arrage themselves in seperate groups and exerts pull on earth
Uranus,neptune are influencing Lagna(asc) Plueto coincides with retrograde Jupiter .

Planetcode program arrange the planets according to their power to do evil. Running dasalord is KETU which rules 12th house.

19-Loss of wealth and life possible(8,12,) Ch-1,H2 MARS,7,6MOON,9,3KETU,9,3SATU,7,3RAHU,7,3MERC,7,2JUPTR,5,4