The impact of the great earthquake this past week is thought to of made a definite change to the earth's rotation and tilt. An article on CNN reports what the chairman of JPL's International Earth Rotation Service's Special Bureau for the Oceans, theorizes are the effects of the earthquake's force.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.He goes on to say that there are probably no long-term effects from this slight variation. This further shows how dynamic a planet that we live on. (via Coast-to-Coast AM)
