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Posted on 04/04/2011 7:52:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Initial results out of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology show that the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rattled Japan Friday shifted the earth’s rotation axis by about 25 centimetres.
INGV’s report, which came hours after the devastating incident, is equivalent to “very, very tiny” changes that won’t be seen for centuries, though, Canadian geologists say.
Only after centuries would a second be lost as each day is shortened by a millionth of a second, according to University of Toronto geology professor Andrew Miall.
“Ten inches sounds like quite a lot when you hold a ruler in front of you. But if you think of it in terms of the earth as a whole, it’s absolutely tiny; it’s minute,” he said.
“It’s going to make minute changes to the length of a day. It could make very, very tiny changes to the tilt of the earth, which affects the seasons, but these effects are so small, it’d take very precise satellite navigation to pick it up.”
The earth’s rotation will now shift at a different speed because the globe’s mass has been redistributed, said Michael Bostock, a University of B.C. earthquake seismology professor.
He used an analogy of a figure skater pulling in his or her arms to spin faster because weight has been reorganized.
“Ultimately, if you change the length of day, you can change the length of time a given point on earth receives sunlight and doesn’t receive sunlight,” he said. “But will this affect us in our lifetimes? Absolutely not.”
The researchers said that while the minuscule change may be completely undetectable, it still illustrates the punch behind the Japan’s massive earthquake.
Last year, NASA reported that a 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile shorted the day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to computer-model calculations.
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“And to think, if we were still under Levitical Law, Harold Camping would have already had two appointments with many many thrown stones in an open field somewhere...”
Hmmm, maybe the Christian soothsayer’s rule is “Let he who really knows the date of the Apocalypse cast the first stone”?
“The world already ended back in the 13th century.”
There are some other FReepers who have assured me it all ended in 70 AD. So confusing...
I was thinking maybe Obama was trying to re-balance the Earth by hammering lead into Libya.
“How much energy is required to move the earth by that tiny amount? I would posit that it is more energy than has been release by man in the entire history of man.”
Yeah, this is old “news” about this Italian claim. Total nonsense. Which axis? magnetic? actual rotational axis? What shifted? the core? the crust? what?
The crust is so thin compared to the earth’s total volume, that an actual shift of the rotational axis would cause enough energy to be released that the crust would simply come apart at the seams within seconds, producing massive earthquakes and volcanoes that would wipe out practically every living creature except bacteria within a few minutes.
F**king Italian “scientists”. Bleh.
Our President is seeing to it that it does not.
“Only after centuries would a second be lost as each day is shortened by a millionth of a second...”
Which is why they will cut Social Security and make us work longer for less money.
Whatever it takes. After all, it's way past time for the sequel!
Nahh... The stone casting is what ended in 70 AD.
There.
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O no not on my birthday...
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