On March 19, 2011, the Earth will be closer to the moon at any point in the past 18 years. Some scientists call this a "super moon".
It's a scientific fact that: The moon’s gravity can even cause small but measurable ebbs and flows in the continents, called “land tides” or “solid Earth tides,” too. The tides are greatest during full and new moons, when the sun and moon are aligned either on the same or opposite sides of the Earth.
According to John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, particularly dramatic land and ocean tides do trigger earthquakes. “Both the moon and sun do stress the Earth a tiny bit, and when we look hard we can see a very small increase in tectonic activity when they’re aligned,” Vidale told Life’s Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com.
Now, the odds of some cataclysmic event unfolding because of a "super moon" seem slim at best, but with the seismic activity recently occurring in Indonesia, Haiti, Chile, Japan, and China, it certainly doesn't seem impossible.
One man who predicted the World Series earthquake in 1989 is predicting another one in California this weekend. Jim Berkland allegedly predicted the quake and is predicting another one on March 19, 2011 because of the super moon coming.
It's a scientific fact that: The moon’s gravity can even cause small but measurable ebbs and flows in the continents, called “land tides” or “solid Earth tides,” too. The tides are greatest during full and new moons, when the sun and moon are aligned either on the same or opposite sides of the Earth.
According to John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, particularly dramatic land and ocean tides do trigger earthquakes. “Both the moon and sun do stress the Earth a tiny bit, and when we look hard we can see a very small increase in tectonic activity when they’re aligned,” Vidale told Life’s Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com.
Now, the odds of some cataclysmic event unfolding because of a "super moon" seem slim at best, but with the seismic activity recently occurring in Indonesia, Haiti, Chile, Japan, and China, it certainly doesn't seem impossible.
One man who predicted the World Series earthquake in 1989 is predicting another one in California this weekend. Jim Berkland allegedly predicted the quake and is predicting another one on March 19, 2011 because of the super moon coming.
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