I’ve been watching this for a couple months.
Right now TODAY, Jupiter, Sun and Mercury are on one side of the Earth.
The Moon, Mars and Saturn are on the other.
A week ago, small quakes started to pop up in CA, NV and WA and the timings seem to indicate they were interrelated.
CA activity has been pretty quiet for the last year other than an occasional 4.x
I’m not predicting anything but it is something worth studying carefully.
I know, half the galaxy is on one side and the other half is pulling on the other side.
No wonder my waste has gotten bigger.
It has been scarily quiet in SoCal.
The tidal force of a nearby object is proportional to the inverse CUBE of its distance times the mass of the object. This happens to be the density of the object times the cube of the ratio of its diameter to its distance.
But the apparent diameter in the sky of this object is simply the ratio of its diameter to its distance, so the tidal force is proportional to its density times the cube of its apparent diameter.
( This is my own observation, BTW. )
Thus, since the sun and moon have about the same apparent diameter ( nearly exactly, in fact ) the lesser tidal force of the sun is a demonstration of its lesser ( average ) density.
Also, with the density of the other planets being the same or somewhat less than the moon, it follows that their tidal influence is limited by the cube of their apparent diameters, making this influence in each case very much less than the tidal influence of the moon or sun. You do the math!