Quake shifted Earth's axis, shortened day: NASA

Wow, those quakes are powerful enough to cause the changes but we don't notice it at all.
 
lol only by like 1.26 microseconds. the tsunamis does cause Earth to skip a beat too.
 
If that so, it would cause more days, less second to minutes to day to weeks. It show our age would be screw up as people tell "omg omgomg, you don't look like 100 years old, what's your secret?!?!"
 
PowerON said:
If that so, it would cause more days, less second to minutes to day to weeks. It show our age would be screw up as people tell "omg omgomg, you don't look like 100 years old, what's your secret?!?!"
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"live in California" :lol:
 
scientists estimated that our Sun will go supernova in about 5 billions or so :bye:
 
Yes, the tsunami from the quakes can cause oceans of Earth to wobble a bit...it's like shaking a big jug and water sloshes around and you can't hold it still.
 
TXgolfer said:
Maybe after billions of years........It's still significant though I think
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It would be if you keep adding up all others major earthquakes that did this in the right locations. After 10 million years off of this Chile earthquake the Earth would've lost 4,536 seconds or 1.26 hours, so after 24 million years you'd lose a whole day's worth of the Earth's rotation.
 
TXgolfer said:
Makes me want to enter a pact like the global warming family.....lol
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LOL. Exactly! I'm not worried about our own star going supernova anytime but it's the billions of other stars in our own galaxy that could go supernova at anytime (or maybe already have) that will reach Earth and cause devastation. People don't realize this part already. Especially the ones that are essentially in our own galaxy backyard a few hundred light years away.

A supernova within 100 light-years of the Earth would likely be a catastrophic event for our planet, but something as far out as T Pyxidis may or may not damage the Earth. One of the journalists in attendance pointed out this possibility during the questions session and Sion said that the main danger lies in the amount of X-rays and gamma rays that stream from such an event, which could destroy the protective ozone layer of the Earth and leave the planet vulnerable to the ultraviolet light streaming from the Sun.
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Quake may have shifted Earth's axis, shortened day - CTV News

http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt
 
kokonut said:
It would be if you keep adding up all others major earthquakes that did this in the right locations. After 10 million years off of this Chile earthquake the Earth would've lost 4,536 seconds or 1.26 hours, so after 24 million years you'd lose a whole day's worth of the Earth's rotation.
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I won't hold my breath for that one. :lol:
 
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