OK, I'm a bit of a numbers geek and like to research ideas. On TV, I heard this theory by a geologist (James Berkland) who claims, when there was a "new moon at perigee" that he believed there was a higher incidence of earthquakes due to the sun and moons combined gravitational pull on tectonic plates (I'm not knowlegable about astronomy). It seemed like a good theory, but it also seems too obvious, like others would have thought of that before, but I thought it would be fun to look at some data (I'm a bit of a geek).
I looked up the new moon calander and the perigee (not apogee) calander and got them in a spread sheet and found the dates where they closely matched up for 2007. But, I found no strong correlation between 2007 earhquakes and these dates. So I was wondering if there is some convenient table of lunar and solar gravitational pull and when it was the absolute strongest during the past few years (or any time frame you can point me too).
2007-05-28
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RogerDodger
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