The moon and earthquakes

I had wondered whether a certain pattern of earthquakes might have something to do with the angles at which the moon's orbit intersects with the ecliptic measured relative to the projection of the earth's axis onto the ecliptic.

The idea is that, if on June 21st the ascending moon node was in the direction of the sun at September 21st, i.e. in the beginning of Libra, the inclination of the moon's orbit relative to the ecliptic would counteract the earth's tilt relative to the ecliptic and hence the moon would circle as close to the equator around the earth as possible, leading to a stronger than usual flattening of the earth and the corresponding earthquake pattern.

Well, that doesn't pan out as far as the earthquakes leading up to April 4th are concerned*. But just to illustrate the theory: It takes the lunar plane about 18.613 years in order to complete a (clockwise) rotation around the earth's axis. In May 2020 the ascending node moved into Gemini, i.e. 1/4 of the cycle after the ideal position in the beginning of Libra. I.e. we should have seen the above earthquake pattern in 2015, the proposed seismic season of flattening.

* Then again, if you just look at the sublunar path, it aligns reasonably well with the southern line of earthquakes.