NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis

[Jason]

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day
Updated: 3 hours 16 minutes ago


(March 1) -- Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth's overall mass, scientists from NASA say.

As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter than it was before Saturday's magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

Read the rest: http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-chile-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/19378491

[Johnny]

Furthering the 2012 possibility. One of the doomsday theories is that the axis is changing, which will cause a complete weather change around 2012.
http://www.thepolarshift2012.com/

[Jason]

Before reading that article is was hard for me to fathom just how insanely powerful an 8.8 quake would be.  I know a couple nano seconds loss in daylight is seemingly nothing but to think that an earthquake could possibly rock the planet enough to change the planet's rotation is absolutely amazing.

[fsujax]

I saw this too. It is very cool to think an earthquake can do that. Truly a major seismic event.

[Johnny]

Yeah, to add to that... I was reading the other day about how much more powerful an earthquake is when it's even just decimal points apart. They rate it on a scale and someone may think a 7.5 isn't that much above a 7.0 in mathematical terms, but it's a completely different rating system and even .5 decimal points can be significant on larger quakes. We may not think a 3.0 is anything, but a 6.0 isn't just double, it's many, many multiples of force to get there.

[Johnny]

"The Richter Scale is used to rate the magnitude of an earthquake -- the amount of energy it released. This is calculated using information gathered by a seismograph. The Richter Scale is logarithmic, meaning that whole-number jumps indicate a tenfold increase. In this case, the increase is in wave amplitude. That is, the wave amplitude in a level 6 earthquake is 10 times greater than in a level 5 earthquake, and the amplitude increases 100 times between a level 7 earthquake and a level 9 earthquake. The amount of energy released increases 31.7 times between whole number values. "
http://www.howstuffworks.com/earthquake6.htm

[Jason]

I've heard that too Johnny.  Kinda scary to think of what a 9.0 could do to the Earth's axis.

[fsu813]

Probably like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4cIdQYf9o&feature=PlayList&p=04EC943433ACFB81&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11

[rjp2008]

2012??

What has that got to do with anything?

[Bostech]

Earthquakes affect but don't change Earth that much.9.3 earthquake happened in 2004 when it produced tsunami.
Polar shift is magnetic not physical and it would take hundreds to thousand of years to occur.
Movie 2012 is also stupid,typical Hollywood Armageddon.

[buckethead]

George Bush created the earthquake and will not stop until the earth's axis is altered by 30 degrees.

Haven't you sheeple heard?

[Doctor_K]

"We've gotta shift the poles over there, so we don't have to shift them over here"

[Bostech]

I don't think GW did but people who gave him a job could.
Haiti and Chile could be jsut experiment before they strike Iran at full force.
Imagine doing earthquake against your enemies or nuclear plants?

[buckethead]

"We've gotta shift the poles over there, so we don't have to shift them over here"

Truth!

[reednavy]

OMG 2012!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!111!!!!!