Chile Earthquake Altered Earth Axis, Shortened Day

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.

National Geographic News

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  1. Armageddon is coming the Mayans recognized it. Better make peace with God and except Jesus as your redeemer.

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