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Old 02-04-2007, 02:15 PM
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Moon tied to earthquakes....??

Hey all!
I seen that thread on the recent earthquake, i was wondering if anyone knew of a documentary i saw on the Discovery channel a couple of years ago about a scientist who said he was investigating how to get an early detection about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and said that he found a connection between major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and the lunar cycle.....i decided to have a look at some of the bigger eruptions and found the phase of the moon, i found that not all but most of the major volcanic eruptions occurred with a 4 day period either side of the full moon or new moon.
His argument was that the moons gravitational pull works on the magma under the earths crust much the same way as it affects the tides....combined with the gravitational alignment with the sun....
Seeing as though this earthquake today happened and looking at the moons phase its full.......coincidence?? MAYBE! I have no idea....but you would think the theory works , take Jupiters moon Io for instance.
When the Tsunami on December 26th, 2004 occurred off Thailand, which caused so much devastation, i looked at the moon phase for that event....
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/in....css&Submit=Go

I havent heard much of anything else from that documentary but it got me thinking......
Perhaps it somehow adds up to increasing earthquake and volcanic eruption awareness around this time...of course its not exact but its pretty close!

Does anyone remember seeing that documentary??
Whaddya think!?

Cheers!
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