On July 6th, The Sun, Mercury, Elenin, and Saturn were in almost perfect alignment... tomorrow (July 7th) is the day they are predicted to be in alignment.

Magnitude 7.6 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION

1185 km (736 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0004pbm.php

I'm sure this had nothing to do with Elenin, since it's just a comet and can't have any affects on Earth.
I wonder what effect it won't have on the 7/7/11.

All kidding aside, there have been several 5.8+ earthquakes in the past couple months when Elenin was NOT in alignment with the sun and any other planet.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/

• Magnitude 7.2 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA June 24, 2011
  
  
• Magnitude 6.0 SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND June 13, 2011
  
  
• Magnitude 5.8 WESTERN TURKEY May 19, 2011
  
  
• Magnitude 6.8 LOYALTY ISLANDS May 10, 2011
  
  

I still don't see why an alignment of planets that are NOT in alignment with earth would have any effect at all.  Certainly the planets are ALWAYS somewhere relative to earth and always exerting an amount of gravity on earth from many directions.  And Mercury, Venus,  Elenin, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus have all been pulling on the same half of earth for months, with some being closer to earth (and having more pull) at times... so why does getting them all in a straight line make any difference when earth isn't in that line.

We will see what happens in the next couple days, but I'm certain it won't be anything major because the Space Shuttle will still take off Friday (or sometime there after if delayed), otherwise the dreams/visions of the space shuttle can't be true.