2013 Supermoon: Will the June 22-23 Peak Deliver Natural Disasters?

The 2013 Supermoon will take place in just a few days as it makes a close distance to planet Earth. Now, doomsayers are predicting that the June 22-23 Supermoon peak will deliver natural disasters as an effect such as tsunami, typhoon and earthquake.

Doomsayers claim that the worldwide natural disasters in the past are connected to the Supermoon occurrence. In 1955, the flood at Hunter Valley and Typhoon Danny caused destruction and death of thousands of people.

The 1974 Cyclone Tracy reportedly destroyed Darwin city in Northern Territory, Australia while the 1992 Supermoon supposedly caused the severe earthquakes that happened in Turkey and the Californian desert. In 2005, the Indonesia tsunami occurred only two weeks before the Supermoon's appearance and it also killed thousands of people while Cyclone Katrina wrecked New Orleans.

However, scientists affirm that no scientific evidence supports the connection between the Supermoon phenomenon and the natural disasters. When the Moon is at its closest distance to planet Earth, the gravitational pull is at its peak and the tide is at maximum when the Moon is full or new.

The gravitational force is said to weaken rapidly with an increase in distance creating the differential. Earth becomes a little bit stretched as a result of the differential gravitational force but the oceans become moved easily.

Therefore, the effect will fill up water on either side of planet Earth called the tides. It is worth mentioning that the tidal effect on average is reasonably small and weak with raising the tide to only a few feet across the 8000-mile-wide Earth.

The most important factor that must be accepted and understood is that Supermoons are significant but effects during its peak time do not really pose a threat. There has not been any scientific evidence laid out yet that proves such phenomenon can cause or be connected with the natural disasters.