According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile may have also shifted Earth’s axis by bout 8 centimeters (3 inches). This happened due to the redistribution of mass on the planet (lots of rocks were moved around during the quake). Earth’s inclination may not only have been the only thing that was changed. Earthlings can expect shorter days too. How shorter? Around 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second) shorter. Providing this is accurate you needn’t worry about smaller paychecks.
Even though these changes are difficult to directly measure due to their small size they can be modeled using supercomputers and a couple of trained brains. More accurate data will be available as soon as more detailed information about the earthquake can be gathered.
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News source, BusinessWeek
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