3.12.2011

Looming ‘supermoon’ did not trigger Japan tremblor, tsunami - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

Looming ‘supermoon’ did not trigger Japan tremblor, tsunami - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

Did the approaching “extreme supermoon" event – when the full moon comes closest to the Earth in alignment with the sun – trigger Friday’s magnitude-8.9 Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami, as was foretold by an astrologer?

“No, it did not," answered the website EarthSky.org – which claims to have more than 600 science advisors and partners such as the United States’ National Aerospace Authority (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Geological Society of America.

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A day before the Japan quake, an article was posted online on Life's Little Mysteries – a sister site of Space.com – and started going around other online news websites like Yahoo!News and MSNBC.

The article said: “The bottom line is, the upcoming supermoon won't cause a preponderance of earthquakes, although the idea isn't a crazy one."

But Noelle claims that “the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, the largest volcanic event in the second half of the 20th Century, took place on June 15, 1991 (within three days of a SuperMoon)"

He also said: “Of course, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions don't go wandering all over the planet. They happen in (mostly) predictable locations, like the infamous ‘Ring of Fire’ around the Pacific plate."

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