Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
by 2012 on Mar.04, 2010, under blog
The following article was sent to me. It discusses the Chile earthquake and how it affected the axis of the earth by 3 inches and how it shortened our day by 1.26 milliseconds.
SPACE.com Staff– Tue Mar 2, 10:00 am ET
SPACE.com Space.com Staff
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquakein recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
”Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth’s axis,” NASA officials said in a Monday update.
The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found… [more]
January 22nd, 2011 on 9:14 am
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