Our Earth recently experienced a "Super Moon," the closest approach of our orbiting satellite in 18 years. (See Super Moon.) Now, given that the moon does cause tides in our oceans, why would we not expect this event to cause tides in our terrestial lands also ... or earthquakes? Such recent catastrophic events in New Zealand and Japan, it would seem to me, are therefore quite scientifically understandable and should have been predicted. No?
