LOOMING ‘SUPERMOON’ DID NOT TRIGGER JAPAN TREMBLOR, TSUNAMI

By MARLON ANTHONY R. TONSON, GMA News Did the approaching “extreme supermoon" event – when the full moon comes closest to the Earth in alignment with the sun – trigger Friday’s magnitude-8.9 Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami, as was foretold by an astrologer? “No, it did not," answered the website EarthSky.org – which claims to have more than 600 science advisors and partners such as the United States’ National Aerospace Authority (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Geological Society of America.