Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis


The earthquake in Chile was so strong that it changed the length of the days. These earthquake redistributed the earth weight. this is due to , that during an earthquake a massive quantity of rock that is displaced to another part, an changed to earth weight. These caused the days to be 1.26 microseconds shorter. A microsecond is one million of a second, so the damage is no many, but it will be preliminary.

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