Guess what’s on the federal government’s chopping block? A tsunami warning system that came in handy yesterday.
Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, March 13, 2011 (Reuters)
On March 19, the moon will be closest to Earth in almost 20 years and some believe that its gravitational pull may bring chaos to Earth.
The New England hurricane of 1938, the Hunter Valley floods of 1955, Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and Hurricance Katrina in 2005 all happened during lunar perigees. The tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Indonesia happened two weeks before the January 2005 supermoon.
Of course, some think these were just coincidences:
Is there any science backing these theories up?
Absolutely none, says Pete Wheeler of the International Center for Radio Astronomy. All that will happen next week is that the Earth will experience a “lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide.” A Super Moon, he concludes, is “nothing to get excited about.”I believe he’s already been proven wrong. This is now being catalogued as the seventh strongest earthquake ever recorded.
