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Thread #136314 Message #3200500
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Aug-11 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
NASA
Day shortened by 1.8 microseaonds (roughly one millionth of a second. Earth axis shifted 6.5 inches.
Richard Gross of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said these changes happen all the time. Over the course of a year, day length changes about one millisecond, about 550 times the change caused by the Japanese quake.
The position of the axis changes about 3.3 feet over the course of a year.
USA Today, Science Fair, March 2011.