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The moon is the "conventional" satellite of the earth. It always runs in its own orbit. Under normal circumstances, the moon has a period of 27.3 days and an elliptical orbit. According to this ellipse, the moon and the earth always stick together, and they remain between 363,300 km and 405,500 km. Therefore, the distance between the moon and the earth will be "near" and "far" every month. At the same time, due to the eccentricity of 0.0547 between the earth and the moon, the nearest distance and the farthest distance always change.

22 1, 567 miles (about 35,658 kilometers)

On the night of March 19 this year, the moon will quietly move to the nearest place to the earth, with a distance of 356,578 kilometers, which is the latest time since 1992. The moon that day was 1.07 times that of the usual full moon, which also provided a good opportunity for citizens to enjoy the moon. For the coming moon on 19 night, 19 coincides with the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar and the full moon.

Recently, an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Japan on March 1 1, which makes people wonder: Is it related to the "super moon" on March 19? Some netizens said, 1955, 1974, 1992, when the "super moon" appeared in 2005, nothing was good. For example, in June of 5438+in October of 2005 10, a large-scale tsunami occurred in Indonesia two weeks before the appearance of the "super moon". 1974 Christmas, Typhoon Tracy hit Australia. According to statistics, many major earthquakes occur at night. During the 600 years from 1300 to 1976, 29 major earthquakes occurred in China, of which 2 1 occurred at night, accounting for 72%. Moreover, most of the major earthquakes occurred in the first and fifteenth days of junior high school. At this time, the moon is closest to the earth, which leads to the release of crustal energy at this time.

Zhang Zhenya, deputy director of the Seismological Bureau of Jiangsu Province, said that there is indeed data showing that the period when the earthquake occurred was also a period when the extreme distance between the earth and the moon changed, but without this change, natural disasters such as earthquakes would still occur, so it is not rigorous to equate the two. Zhang Zhenya also said: "From the current monitoring, at least there is no sign of a destructive earthquake of magnitude 5 or above in Jiangsu."

Scientists explained that Pete Wheeler, as a staff member of the International Astronomical Center, also believes that "the super moon has nothing to do with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions."