Moon over Penang

There's actually very little to describe about this nice photograph of the moon that I snapped at the beach last night (22 Dec 2007). I'll let the picture do most of the talking. It was so bright that you could see the clouds and the halo around the moon.

According to the Almanac, the moon was at its perigee, meaning it was at its closest to earth. The Almanac also says the moon will be at opposition in two days' time, meaning it will be opposite the sun in our sky. Will this sun-earth-moon configuration bring about another spate of earthquakes here? It need not be on 24 Dec for this to happen, because the plates may have been stressed already during the days leading to this day.