Apart from acolossal tsunami , here ’s another burden of the 66.6 exajoules liberated by this weekend ’s quake in Chile : NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that days will now be light because the earthquake shifted Earth ’s axis by three inches .
https://gizmodo.com/the-wrath-of-god-this-weekend-5482664
The alteration — which can only be evaluate thanks to computer model — will result in Clarence Shepard Day Jr. that are 1.26 microsecond shorter than before . That ’s 0.00000126 seconds shorter . There may have been more seeable changes , like islands alter its position . One of them , Santa María , may have upgrade two meter after the shattering land move .
This is not the first time this has happened , as every single earthquake has an effect on the planet ’s axis of rotation . [ Business Week ]
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