Articles About Sumatran Earthquake

Author:
Tom Silva
Posted:
03.09.2010

Chilean Earthquake Shortened Day, Knocked Earth Off Its Axis

The 8.8 magnitude Chilean earthquake was so strong that it literally knocked the earth off its axis – permanently. Richard Gross, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, calculated that the earth’s rotation changed so that the length of our day is now roughly 1.26 microseconds shorter.  A microsecond is equivalent to one millionth […]

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