The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that caused widespread upheaval in Chile and sent a minor Tsunami over wide areas of the Pacific Ocean came right on the Full Moon.

As we have mentioned many times before there is a quite definite linkage between major earthquakes and the phases of the Moon. This is an earthquake of massive proportions and it is surely no coincidence that it also comes at the height of one of the years most concentrated periods of planetary alignments.

Once more - it illustrates - if ever it needed to be stressed how susceptible this planet is to celestial forces.