"Super Moon" and the 3.11 earthquake in Japan

March 19, 2011 (Beijing March 20, 2011), the moon will reach last 19 years away from Earth location. It was believed that the Earth's surface are only a point with more than 350,000 km, it seems unusually large. Some people think that "Super Moon" will come, or natural disasters are caused by extreme weather, contact the earthquake in Japan, can not help but to ask the earthquake and in the end there is no relationship between lunar gravity? Japan-US Joint Study Group conclusions are: the tidal waters of lunar gravity, anomalies in the crust the occasion of large quantities of energy savings, is likely to be Earth's gravitational earthquake plates fuse. -Psytopic.com

March 19, 2011 (Beijing March 20, 2011), the moon will reach last 19 years away from Earth location. This is according to the British "Daily Mail" reported on March 8, is said to be the nearest point with the Earth's surface is only more than 350,000 kilometers away, it looks unusually large. Because people may lead to extreme weather and geological disasters and talking about the endless contention.

There are two distinct attitude, one part of the population (mainly users) that ushered in on March 19 "Super Moon" will come, or natural disasters are caused by extreme weather; Secondly, some active scientists pointed out that "Super Moon" and extreme weather nothing. Of course, there blindly follow the trend, unconvinced.

The first possibility: the disaster that

Warned that some Internet users, due to the distance between Earth and the Moon, "too close", so "super moon" may damage the earth's weather patterns, and even will lead to large-scale volcanic eruptions and seismic activity. Prior to 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005, there have been super the moon, but did not bring good luck to humans, but an endless stream of extreme weather events.

"Disaster said," is based on the previous "Super Moon" took place the year, such as the 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005, extreme weather events have occurred. Christmas 1974, "Tracy" hurricane, Darwin, Australia gave its ruins. January 2005 "Super Moon" two weeks before, causing hundreds of thousands of Indonesia's tsunami death March 11, 2011 super-moon at a distance of only 8 days in Japan by 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred

One fact to note, at least the disaster that can be divided into two groups, one apocalyptic disaster that, filled with the fatalism color; First, the potential for anxiety, might be too exaggerated.

The second possibility: Since the result of that

Some scientists believe that earthquakes and volcanic super-eruption of the moon and there is no necessary link, even if there are volcanoes and earthquakes as the earth itself is the reason. The distance between Earth and the Moon only affects changes in recent tides.

International Radio Astronomy Centre (International Centre for Radio Astronomy) scientist Peter - Wheeler (Pete Wheeler) said: "'Super Moon' will not bring about earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, will only make the Earth appear lower than normal low tide or higher high tide, there is nothing to be excited 。...... will be will not be an earthquake or volcanic eruption, unless it is the original will occur. "

Australian amateur astronomer Reneke (David Reneke) also holds the same view, he said there are always some people super-moon and the earth of natural disasters linked, conspiracy theorists can always find something to do with the particular time of natural disasters, and blame the super moon. He pointed out that "If you think so, then you can all the natural disasters on the planet and comets, planetary motion and solar activity associated with."

But for the moon, astronomers believe that there are many things to learn and study, after all, the neighbor to the Earth, human beings know is very limited. Although as early as 1969, Apollo to the moon, but experts and scholars on the planet who study the moon's far from thorough.

A third possibility: questioned

"Even excluding 1990, the year the super-moon, it is ranked fifth." Taipei Astronomical Museum education researcher Gebi Yang questioned. Recent rumors of March 19 foreign countries will be about the moon's distance of 356,578 kilometers near the Earth is the closest since 1992, saying not reliable, the actual data, since 1990, and months away from the ranking according to proximity order, namely, Taiwan time December 2, 1990, the moon closest to Earth, followed by the March 8, 1993 (356,528.183 km), January 20, 1992 (356,549.864 km), December 13, 2008 (356,565.685 km), January 10, 2005 (356,569.994 km), again is the March 20, 2011 (356,574.966 km).

The super-moon, the moon will be in Taipei time at 3:09 on the 20th too close to the site. Of course, certainly different from the British media data sources in Taipei, then the time differences, time has changed in recent locations. Taipei Astronomical Museum, said 320 of the super-moon, people feel relatively large at the most you can see the moon, the moon will be at 3:09 on March 20 too close to the location, is nearly 13 times this year's closest approach to Earth in one place, happens to be 2:10, meet the month to "look" that is, the moment the full moon, so we can watch one of the biggest full moon of this year, the moon's apparent diameter of 33 arc minutes 56 seconds of arc.

The fourth possible?

Seismic and gravity in the end there is no relationship between the moon? This is the problem of the past century has troubled scientists. Now Japan Science and Disaster Prevention Research Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles, a joint research group has finally confirmed: the tidal waters of lunar gravity, anomalies in the crust the occasion of large quantities of energy savings, is likely to be Earth's gravitational earthquake plates fuse. Their findings are published in the famous U.S. "Science" magazine.

Of Elizabeth. Geqi Lan said: "The gravitational influence of the tide ebb and flow of the moon, the earth itself under the effect of gravity on the moon is also deformed. Fierce tides, triggered by the earthquake played a significant role in earthquake time pressure due to tidal fluctuations caused by the advance or delay. "researchers found that the occurrence of earthquakes and tidal stress were highly related, violent section layer in a shallow tidal exerted enough pressure to trigger an earthquake. When the great tide, to about 2-3 meters, 3 / 4 of the earthquake will happen, but the smaller tides, may also be caused by smaller earthquakes.

Another of the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Professor John. DIMENSIONAL said: "The cause of the earthquake is still a mystery, and this theory can be said to be one of them explained. We found a few meters of sea level within forces generated by changes significantly affect the probability of earthquakes, which for us to fully understand the causes of the earthquake has taken a solid step forward. "

Geqi Lan, who for the first time and tidal wave the size of the phase together, and earthquakes and tidal stress data were statistically analyzed, based on calculations from the Japan Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention seismologists Tanaka. Tanaka from 1977 to 2000 took place in the world's more than 5.5 intraplate earthquake, investigated the 2207 meeting is called "reverse fault type" earthquake location, time records, and with the gravity of the moon during an earthquake relationship was found: the earthquake occurred at a time, and tidal stress on the fault plane has a high correlation make the fault dislocation lunar gravity when an earthquake occurs more frequently. Tanaka said: "The moon's gravity is only the earth's crust causes earthquakes abnormal changes occurred about one thousandth of the force, but its role is not inconsiderable, it is the last earthquake, power, equivalent to breaks the camel's back straw. "

Domestic experts, most of that: "Super Moon" does bring an enhanced gravity, but the earthquake, tsunami and other disasters, and the relationship between super-moon there was no scientific basis. Yes, Psytopic sincerely hope will bring disaster, but "Super Moon" will not come quietly, March 20 of the tidal forces will cause changes in the weather.

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