Hey folks, listen up….
…we are about to be witness to the biggest full moon experienced in almost two decades.
This coming Saturday, the 19th, the Earth’s natural satellite –the Moon, will reach its closest point to Earth and will appear unusually large in the night sky as it reaches a point in its cycle known as 'lunar perigee'.
All us stargazers will get a early spring treat as we are privy to a spectacular view of the moon as it approaches Earth at a distance of 221,567 miles in its elliptical orbit.
The full moon will appear to be up to 14% bigger and about 30% brighter when it arises on the eastern horizon.
This phenomenon has reportedly heightened concerns about 'supermoons' being linked to extreme weather events — such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The last time the moon passed close to the Earth was on 10 January 2005, around the time of the Indonesian earthquake that measured 9.0 on the Richter scale.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was also associated with an unusually large full moon.
Previous supermoons occurred in 1955, 1974 and 1992 - each of these years experienced extreme weather events.
Today we have the earthquake in Japan, which can be associated with this upcoming supermoon....or it could be directly caused by HAARP.
Who knows?
But according to Dr Victor Gostin, a Planetary and Environmental Geoscientist at Adelaide University, there may be a link between large-scale earthquakes in places around the equator and new and full moon situations.
The Earth-tides (analogous to ocean tides) may be the final trigger that sets off the earthquake.
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