Shorter days due to Chili earthquake
The following is taken from Gizmodo:
Apart from a colossal tsunami, here’s another effect of the 66.6 exajoules liberated by this weekend’s earthquake in Chile: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that days will now be shorter because the quake shifted Earth’s axis by three inches. The change—which can only be measured thanks to computer models—will result in days that are 1.26 microseconds shorter than before. That’s 0.00000126 seconds shorter. There may have been more visible changes, like islands changing its position. One of them, Santa María, may have raised two meters after the shattering land move. This is not the first time this has happened, as every single earthquake has an effect on the planet’s axis. [Business Week]
This means I’m going home earlier today to make full use of my 1.26 microseconds shorter days xD. It is weird how much effect an earthquake can have and what I’m wondering now is how long till the next big one that’s going to give us a full day ;p
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