Japan earthquake at SuperMoon

TOKYO, Japan (AP/WJLA) - A strong earthquake shook northern Japan early Saturday, triggering a small tsunami. The magnitude-6.8 quake hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 tsunami. At least one person was injured, but no damage was reported. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the struck 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the sea surface off the coast of Fukushima. The 4:22 a.m. (1922 GMT Friday) quake shook buildings in Tokyo, about 250 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of the epicenter.

Today’s Full Moon is a SuperMoon – a term coined by Richard Nolle. The extract below is from his July forecast in which he accurately predicts the possibility of seismic activity.

SuperMoon Alert

 JUL 12, 2014 SuperMoon Full Moon The vanguard of 2014’s summer trio of full moon SuperMoons begins this month. Full moons are always dramatic sights to see, particularly when the moon is just rising in the east as the sun sets. Any full moon near the horizon looks preternaturally large. A SuperMoon looks larger still, because it’s so much closer to Earth than usual. That’s what a SuperMoon is, per the original definition I gave it back in 1979: a new or full moon that occurs when the Moon is at or very near perigee - the point in its orbit when Luna is closest to Earth

This particular full moon is caught up in a Grand Cross that includes the year’s signature Uranus-Pluto square; plus Mars Max. Consequently, along with the typical SuperMoon seismic, hydrological and weather extremes, this time we’ll also see another rash of the "fires, crashes, clashes and explosions" stuff – some of it due to natural conditions, but a lot of it owing to human inattention, haste, recklessness or outright malice aforethought. http://www.astropro.com/homeIE45.html

But what explains the time and place of the quake? To understand that we look at the chart for the SuperMoon at the epicentre (37N04, 142E22) and for the time of the quake (19:22:00 UTC).  The chart for the SuperMoon has the Sun and Moon forming sharp hard aspects to the meridian axis while that for the event has the luminaries on the horizon axis. (Please remember that it is the angles – horizon or meridian axes – that localize celestial phenomena.)