Tag: Earth
Chilean Earthquake Altered Earth’s Rotation, Shortened Days
by Nick Salyers on Mar.02, 2010, under Science, What has Science done?!
The 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have affected Earth’s rotation, shortening the days by as much as 1.26 microseconds, says research scientist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. It is also estimated that the Earth’s figure axis has shifted 3 inches (8 cm).
