Recent Earthquakes are shortening the days on earth.

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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 computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).


The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).


The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).


Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).


One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past

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rudi

I thought I was feeling dizzy

No seriously that is amazing.

Lemers

Well we only have to worry about it until 21 Dec 2012.

But really cool.

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SmoothZ

Then maybe our work day will also shorten.

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PapoZalsa

I wonder what Fox News had said about this, especially that idiot Gleen Beck...

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Do you really want to know? I bet you couldn't care less what Fox News has to say about anything.

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blue660r01

Oh no a whole 1.26 milliseconds

m4a1mustang

Yeah but 1 million years = 21 minute difference. serious stuff man.

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Lemers

Don't know about fox news. But CNN had Al Gore on connecting it to human impact on global warming and climate change

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Al Gore.................... isn't he an inventor?

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SmoothZ

Serious stuff = 6 billion people farting like Mongo

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dad

I'd be more concerned with this, it's much more factual!

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370Zvetlana

people on this forum remove their spare tire from their car to gain that much in their quarter mile.....it must be significant!

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