Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Shorter days from Chile

The destructive 8.8 Earthquake in Chile had the world worrying due to deaths and Tsunami's but I didn't expect to find out that that 8.8 Earthquake has sped up the velocity of the earth.
Now the speed has moved 2.7 millarcseconds which will make the days shorter.
In 2004 there was a 9.1 earthquake that sped up the rotation of earth by 6.8 microseconds.
It seems like the amount of natural disasters is increasing over the years and some time (thousands of years from now) the earth might be changed too much for us to live properly.

"NASA: Chile Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day - AOL News." Top News and Analysis From AOL News. Web. 02 Mar. 2010. .
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  1. Tyler WMarch 5, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    I think that this article is very interesting and i find it educational as well. The fact that we're going to have shorter days because of an earthquake is something i would've never thought of before. This information is very interesting.

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