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Originally Posted by troutman
Quake may have altered earth's axis, and shortened our days:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_482002.html
Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second. |
Amazing how much damage this thing did!
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The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
The quake also shifted other parts of South America, as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ...ex.html?hpt=T2
I guess GPS isn't working so well these days in South America