[zebonka]

"es it looks like it is minor but I am going to keep my eye on it. There was a time(about 7years ago) when I was into prophecy. I fell for most of the doomsday senarios about the year 2000 until I was closer to it. I am happy to be wrong about all of that nonsense but something big was suppose to happen in 04 and I was concerned about the earthquake. Just a few days left, I think we will be O.K.."

Good for you! I'm glad you're ok - the 63000 death toll almost had me depressed, but hearing that you're OK makes everything much much better.

Yep. Possibly 100,000 dead - looks minor. Nut.

[k4gdw]

I'm new to this forum so I don't know much about alienken's posting history. I hope he/she was referring to the 3 microsecond change in the earth's length of day as being minor, not the earthquake and resultant tsunami's and the death's they've caused.

Until I read more about it I was more than a little concerned about the long-term effects that 3 microseconds would have on all services which depend on geosynchronous satellites. If the Earth's rotation was permanently sped up all geosynchronous satellites would lag behind causing services that use them to degrade and eventually fail unless the satellites could be adjusted to compensate. This would include everything from satellite based internet and TV used by many in rural areas to failures in global telephone networks (they mostly use satellites now instead of long cables crossing the oceans) to navigation for those giant oil tankers.