Chilean Quake Damages Earth’s Axis

    Via: CNN.com

    The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say. The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
    A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet.

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