This was discovered a group of NASA scientists. The planet’s axis shifted 8 cm.
According to information collected by the portal ‘Business Week’, the scientists used a computer model to calculate the effects of the earthquake and found that on Saturday the day was shortened 1.26 microseconds (millionths of seconds) and that the axis of Earth moved about 8 centimeters.
According to the web edition of the magazine, the Geophysical Laboratory in Pasadena (California) Richard Gross warned that earthquakes can move several meters in a stretch of hundreds of miles of rock, which changes the distribution of mass affecting the planet’s rotation.
In turn, the professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Liverpool Andreas Rietbrock warned the island Santa Maria, near Concepcion, would have risen by 2 meters above its level, as a result of the earthquake.
In Lima, the director of Seismology Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), Hernando Tavera, considered normal for this phenomenon occurs after high intensity earthquakes, such as 9.1 degrees recorded in Sumatra in 2004.
“There are mathematical calculations that are made from the standpoint of research, but if we put those 8 inches in size that represents the Earth, they mean nothing. It is physically possible, but this does not change the status of the cortex or life on Earth. The same applies to the time it would have shortened: if you reduce those millionths of seconds on his watch, gets nothing, not quantifiable to the human eye, “said Tavera.
In this regard, said the movement of the Earth should not lead to such alarms.
Saturday’s earthquake also triggered a tsunami that spread across the Pacific Ocean causing alarm in South America, California, Hawaii, Philippines, Japan and Russia, but caused no damage.
Earthquake Research Institute in Tokyo said the tsunami took 14 hours to reach Hawaii and 24 to reach the shores of Japan. The waves were reached one meter and 90 centimeters.
Awesome right? 1.26 microseconds!
Diego R. reporting at the time of the events!
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Wow, I didn’t know an earthquake could slow down the earth…That is kind of scary.