Quake May Have Made Earth Wobble
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grumpy Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 209 Credit: 152,987 RAC: 0 
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7200192 reuters ID: 59021 ·  |
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Angstrom Send message Joined: 20 Sep 99 Posts: 205 Credit: 10,131 RAC: 0 
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From the US Geological Survey site; change in length of day: -2.676 microseconds "Since the length of the day can be measured with an accuracy of about 20 microseconds, this model predicts that the change in the length-of-day caused by the earthquake is much too small to be observed." You can read more here Angs ID: 59052 · |
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There are other issues! Bump! ID: 60345 · |
 Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 
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Somehow the human race will pull itself through this. Too bad we can't be like this all the time. Why does it take a disaster of this magnitude to bring out the best in us, and for some the worse. [b]Anyway, I haven't noticed any difference in the rotation of this planet. I suppose it would be more noticable near the poles. Anybody from Antartica posting? Account frozen... ID: 61584 · |
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