Heightened Seismic Activity After December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse
On Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 (at the epicenter), a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Bonin Islands, sending shock waves as far as Tokyo and beyond. The timing was striking--within 24 hours of a rare total lunar eclipse.
Being from Seattle you'd expect me to be used to such occurrences, but it's no secret that earthquakes and me don't get along.
The first reports I read were of a 4.2 earthquake, but reports of an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale began to roll in at a rate of nearly a hundred per second within no time. It hadn't been a dream! Japan had most definitely been rocked by an earthquake.
Not only that, but tsunami alerts started to pop up too. Shortly after the earthquake, the Yahoo! Disaster Center (Japanese) warned those in the coastal areas of Japan to be on the look-out for tsunami waves between .5 and 1.0 meters in height. At this time, however, those warnings have been removed.
Regarding the solar situation at the time, some have speculated that the quake might be related to the recent lunar eclipse, citing apparent lunar relationships to earthquakes that occurred in 1999 in Turkey and 2004 in Indonesia (ATS).
But can the moon really have an effect on seismic activity?
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