Earlier on Saturday (3/19/2011), the moon was closest to Earth, its closest in 18 years. The moon is only 221,567 miles or 356,578 kilometers away from our planet.
In the language of astronomy, this phenomenon is called the largest full moon (lunar perigee). However, most people call it a supermoon.
For those lucky enough to witness it that night, the moon looks round, big, and bright. In Indonesia, peak supermoon which took place on Sunday (20/3/2011) early in the morning, precisely at 02.10 WIB.
On Wednesday (3/9/2011), an astrologer — not an astronomer — Richard Nolle predicted, supermoon the “extreme” that occurs 10 days later will cause chaos.
One of the things that is used as a basis for this theory is the fact that Aceh Tsunami 2004, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, occurred two weeks before the 2005 supermoon.
Coincidence or not, the magnitude 7 earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, 2010 was responsible for the deaths of more than 200,000 people. Which happened, just before the supermoon of January 30, 2010.
Two days later, on Friday (3/11/2011), the ground in Japan shook violently. An earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale devastated the northern area of Sakura Country, triggering a tsunami that engulfed the Pacific coastal area in the Tohoku region.
However, this theory has been refuted by the United States Space Agency, NASA. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Jim Garvin explained: supermoon occurs when the moon is a little closer to the earth. This effect is most noticeable during a full moon.
