Saturday’s Chile earthquake was so powerful that it likely shifted an Earth axis and shortened the length of a day, NASA announced Monday.
By speeding up Earth’s rotation, the magnitude 8.8 earthquake—the fifth strongest ever recorded, according to the USGS—should have shortened an Earth day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to new computer-model calculations by geophysicist Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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Armageddon is coming the Mayans recognized it. Better make peace with God and except Jesus as your redeemer.
Patti Smith put it best —
Jesus died for somebody’s sins
But not mine
It’s really interesting. I read about this and then suddenly noticed how much brighter it is in the mornings when I leave for work and wondered if it had the opposite effect. I’m now obsesses with this link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
Try it. You’ll be amazed how much shake, rattle, n’ roll we’ve got goin’ on!!
Uh oh. And now a 6.4 in Taiwan.
Nat, as a former Californian, I’m not surprised you are well acquainted with that website….:)