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Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth



or may not have... You're a scientist! Go get some data and *then* waste our time!

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Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).


No, they have NOT been observed to have had these effects. It was spreadsheet guesswork that it *might* have happened.

In this kind of earthquake one plate moves up and the other down, with little change in net mass distribution (some net uplift in the short term). A planet is a big thing by comparison. Until he gets off his butt and does some science and measurements I'm not buying his assumptions.
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