The Fifth through Seventh Seals

Seal 5 - Revelation 6:9-11 "When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.'" 
Seal 6 - Revelation 6:12-17 "I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place."
Seal 7 - Revelation 8:1 "When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour."

The seventh seal introduces the next series of judgments. John immediately sees seven angels who are handed seven trumpets ready to sound. An eighth angel takes a censer and burns “much incense” in it, representing the prayers of God’s people (verses 3–4). The angel then took the same censer, “filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake”.

Note the chronology of events:

Souls under the altar, crying out:  rumblings from within the earth - or perhaps from space

Each of the souls was given a white robe: the visual counterpart to the sounds and vibrations listed previously 

A great earthquake a shock-wave

The sun goes black - the region of the solar system between the earth and the moon are overtaken by stellar ash as it races towards the sun 

The moon turns blood red - the same as above as it closes in on the sun

The stars of heaven fall to the earth - the debris field adjoining the stellar ash listed previously

The sky recedes like a scroll being rolled up - stellar ash falls to earth due to the earth's gravitational pull 

Every mountain and island moves out of its place - an aftershock / secondary shock-wave and perhaps floods and recessions preceding a tidal wave.

Silence falls upon the earth for about a half hour - the eye of the storm

Seven angels holding seven trumpets - the planets are brighter than usual due to debris being locked around their gravitational fields

An eighth angel takes a censer and burns much incense within it before taking it filled with much fire from the altar, and  hurls it onto the earth - the sun goes semi-nova. It becomes far brighter than usual before expelling a plasma eruption into the solar system.

The earth suffers peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake - the resulting fallout from the sun's semi-nova explosion 

The words written in red above are not simply conjecture. They are based on the Egyptian tradition regarding the birth of Horus during the Season of the Storm.

This is identical to the woman and the dragon in Revelation 12