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Weather By The Moon
ern Hemisphere and began occurring over the Northern
Hemisphere. It featured there for about four years, placing
a greater strain on the tectonic plates over the Southern
Hemisphere while there.
In G. A. Elby’s book “Earthquakes”(Heinemann 1980),
209 earthquakes dating back to 1505 were recorded with
their dates. We can check each quake against Moon phases.
96%. of those quakes recorded which were above 6 on the
Richter Scale, occurred exactly on or within a day of one
extreme feature of Moon cycle, that is, New Moon, Full
Moon, Apogee or Perigee. 75% involved two factors; when
the say, the Perigee plus Full or New moon were on the
same day.
It is interesting that Apogee (Moon fiurthest away in
the month)keeps popping up as a factor too. One can imagine
a tent held by tight guy ropes. If one extra guy rope is
added(viz. Perigee)the tension will be swung more in one
direction. If one guy rope is removed (viz. Apogee), the
whole system will tend to swing in the other direction. Also
Apogeal Moons covers a wider area because the precession
angles combine with the further distance. The Moon
could have a greater ‘swing’ between declination points,
adding up to an extra trajectorial increment. Any plates ‘due
to go’ so to speak, at the edge of the Moon’s orbital influence,
may receive a final push.
Precession angle? Declination points? We are getting
ahead of ourselves. We should look first at Perigees
more closely.
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