Chile Earthquake: Shock Effect On Earth’s Axis Free Internet Press
The earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, according to scientists at NASA. Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the 8.8 magnitude quake could have moved the Earth’s axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters) – enough to shorten a day by about 1.26 microseconds.
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