How does the moon's gravity affect the oceans nearest to the moon?

It distorts them and causes tides(the rise and fall of the sea or ocean water )

Answer: the philippines has suffered from an inexhaustible number of deadly typhoons, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters. this is due to its location along the ring of fire, or typhoon belt – a large pacific ocean region where many of earth's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

Answer the above statement is (false) the correct answer is linear villages;