Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth (and knocked the Earth off axis by 3 inches)

Source: Yahoo News

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).

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

A millisecond here, a millisecond there. Pretty soon you're talking about some real time.

How much energy was released in this quake, anyway? How much is enough to alter the rotation and axial tilt of the entire planet??

:wow:

As such, it travels through space with the Earth. If it changed direction, that change should be measured in degrees, not inches. I am guessing what they mean is that if you marked the North Pole with a pin, then after the earthquake the new North Pole would be 3 inched away from the pin. Did anybody make it clear where the hell the 3 inches are meant to be measured? Why don't they say that the poles moved by 3'' each? That would make sense, but this???

(images from google images)





So, I'm sorta with you...explain the terms.

they wander all the time. Basically due to the internal movement of the
stuff inside the earth that causes magnetism.

Don't cha just love scientific explanations?

The north and south poles, where Santa and the elfs live and vacation,
are geographic measurements.

Agreed, it should be better explained.

:silly: sometimes I need to slow down reading.

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PLATETEC/RotationQk2004.HTM


Well, in terms of microseconds.

... the magnetic poles are due to the rotation of the iron core inside our planet. Rotation of magnetic elements induces currents which in turn induce electromagnetic fields (more complex than that, but just for the sake of simplicity).

The actual geographical poles are due to the axis of rotation of the earth (i.e. the spin which gives us the 24 hr day).

Geographic and magnetic poles do not coincide, among other things because of the fact that the earth actually "wobbles" during its rotation around the sun. Also our orbit is elliptic, not circular. Interactions with the solar wind and gravity. Among other things...

No WONDER I can't get anything done!

:)

That's the Saturday after next: 14 March 2010.

I'm still curious about how the Sun knows to come up an hour and 1.26 ms later. Maybe it has something to do with Quantum Physics or a Poll (Paradime?) Shift.

Whaddaya think?

--d!
Yes, this has been a tongue-in-cheek post.
Honest!

I heard the same think after the earthquake in December 2004.

Source: space.com

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).

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

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have not seen this.

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