Last week"s events of Japan have dramatically shifted people"s perception of the phenomenon that will take place at the end of this week. On Saturday, the Earth will be the closest to the Moon it has been in the last 20 years, at a distance of just 356,578 kilometers.
The average distance between the Moon and the Earth is approximately 384,400 kilometers. Whereas one month ago, this information would not generate much of a reaction, an increasing number of people are now interested in the potential consequences of this fact and in the scenarios of the experts. It"s true however that the number of impostors that deliver all kinds of lies, piggybacking on scientific data that they mix with their own interpretations has increased dramatically. The most frightening story, but also the least plausible, published by several American blogs, speaks of a total "disruption" of Moon, which would eventually fall to Earth. Discussing the effects of such an event would be superfluous. There are also messages that attempt to ease the worries of the citizens of Earth, claiming that there is no way a planetary apocalypse would take place on March 19th, some resorting to tragicomical reasons why this is the case: there is no way the end of the world would happen now, because it is scheduled for next year, as predicted by the Mayan Calendar, or because the apocalypse has already happened.
According to scientists, one thing is certain, on the night of March 19th the tides will be much higher, because the seas and oceans are attracted by the gravity of the moon. This also happened at the last perigees of the Moon (1955, 1974, 1992). There is also the possibility of extreme natural phenomenon occurring: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, but no one can accurately how intense they would be. One of the Romanian authorities on the matter, Gheorghe Mărmureanu, the hea
