text:  Contraction of America. Well, so you either would go to the press, or the press would more likely come to you and say, what's going on? And so you knew this quake was coming somehow. Oh, yes. Well, we had the highest tidal force in three years on October 14, 1989. We had the full moon and the closest approach to the moon in three years, only three hours apart. And the exact same thing happened back in 1865 on October 4th.