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 earthquake in 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 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 earthquake in 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.
I bet these quakes and this very tiny almost insignificant shift has got all the 2012 nuts jumping up and down. The thing that saddens me the most next to all the devastation and loss of life from these events is all the wackos that come out of the wood work to spread their crazy dooms day scenarios.
I bet these quakes and this very tiny almost insignificant shift has got all the 2012 nuts jumping up and down. The thing that saddens me the most next to all the devastation and loss of life from these events is all the wackos that come out of the wood work to spread their crazy dooms day scenarios.
:bigsmile: I can see a nice scenario ! San Andreas returns to Formosa and uniteds the con-tignents. A new Atlantisc in the Pacific.:poke-eye:
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Fri 5 Mar, 2010 03:03 pm
@Pythagorean,
So, I wonder if my boss will lower my pay, since he gets less out of me every day.
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