Tracing the Origin of the Alleged Supermoon ‘Triggers’ a Terrible Disaster

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – On Saturday (19/3/2011), the moon was at its closest distance to Earth — the closest in 18 years. The moon is only 221,567 miles or 356,578 kilometers from the human planet.

In the language of astronomy, the phenomenon is called the largest full moon (lunar perigee). However, most people call it a supermoon.

For those who are lucky to be able to see it that night, the moon looks round, big, and bright. In Indonesia, the peak super moon occurred Sunday (20/3/2011) early morning, precisely at 02:10 WIB.

On Wednesday (9/3/2011), an astrologer – not an astronomer – Richard Nolle predicted, super moon ‘extreme’ that will happen in 10 days later, will trigger havoc.

One of them that is used as the basis of this theory is the fact that Aceh Tsunami 2004, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, occurred two weeks before the 2005 supermoon.

Whether coincidental or not, the 7 SR earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, was responsible for the deaths of more than 200 thousand people. Which happened, shortly before the January 30, 2010 supermoon.

Two days later, on Friday (11/3/2011), the ground in Japan shook violently. A earthquake with a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale devastated the northern region of Sakura, triggering a tsunami that swept across the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region.

However, the theory was refuted by the United States Space Agency, NASA. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Jim Garvin explains, super moon occurs when the moon is slightly closer to the earth. This effect is most visible during a full moon.

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