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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 981068 United States 05/25/2010 08:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | mm could it have been a typo? Quoting: ~Sir John~Thousand of different records... they have changed and have canceled out page after page of their previous annoucncments. You will not find one in their records showing they made any statemente on March 11, 2010... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 981068 United States 05/25/2010 08:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to science.nasa.gov] March 11, 2010: Last month's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in coastal Chile was strong. How strong? NASA scientists say it might have shifted the axis of Earth itself. "If our calculations are correct, the quake moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm)," says geophysicist Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. You might think you would have noticed the Earth suddenly tilting 3 inches. But that's not how the "figure axis" works. "The figure axis defines not how Earth is tilted, but rather how it is balanced," says Gross. Consider the following: Earth is not a perfect sphere. Continents and oceans are distributed unevenly around the planet. There's more land in the north, more water in the south, a great ocean in the west, and so on. As a result of these asymmetries, Earth slowly wobbles as it spins. The figure axis is Earth's axis of mass balance, and the spin axis wobbles around it. "The Chilean quake shifted enough material to change the mass balance of our entire planet," Gross says. A shifting figure axis is nothing new. On its own, the figure axis moves about 10 centimeters per year as a result of "Ice Age rebound." After the last great glacial period some 11,000 years ago, many heavy ice sheets disappeared. This unloaded the crust and mantle of the Earth, allowing the planet to relax or "rebound" back into a more spherical shape. The rebounding process is still underway and so the figure axis naturally moves. On Feb. 27, 2010, the Chilean quake may have moved the figure axis as much in a matter of minutes as it normally moves in a whole year. It was a truly seismic shift�no pun intended. So far, however, it's all calculation and speculation. "We haven't actually measured the shift," says Gross. "But I intend to give it a try." The key is GPS1. "Using a global network of GPS receivers, we can monitor the rotation of Earth with high precision," he says. "Changes in Earth's spin and the orientation of Earth's axes affect [the phase and timing of] signals we get from the satellites in Earth orbit." GPS is already used to monitor seasonal changes in Earth's spin. It turns out that tides, winds, ocean currents, and circulation patterns in Earth's molten core modulate Earth's rotation on a regular basis. For instance, a typical day in January is about 1 millisecond longer than a typical day in June. The roughly six-month variation is driven mainly by seasonal winds; there are also changes on time scales of weeks, years, decades and centuries. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 715324 United States 05/25/2010 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.npr.org] From How The Chilean Quake Moved An Entire Planet Mar 3, 2010 - The magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile this weekend apparently changed the length of the day — and shifted the way the Earth wobbles, according to ... This is called the Chandler wobble. And back in the mid 1970s, O'Connell wrote a paper that showed how big earthquakes keep kicking the Earth ... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 558013 United States 05/25/2010 09:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dear friend another wrong does not make it OK for the Government to ask me and those Quoting: Anonymous Coward 981068that know NASA announced on the date on March 11, 2010... to the World the 'Earth had recently wobbled and its rotation had changed'. To now accept NASA deceiving... purposely lying.. having changed their records to read they made the announcement to the World on March 1, 2010. Why? That question must be answered! Why have they (NASA) changed so many of their records to show having made that announcement on a completely different date... and made such a great effort to cover up the original (actual) date of March 11th... 2010... when they originally stated to the World there had been a major rotation change to the Earth?... I do not have to stand by and accept the (supposed OFFICIAL) lying records without saying something!... The liars (someone at NASA) they have a deeper reason for their deception... and I will not condone helping them with whatever the Administration has set out to accomplish! Redundant yes!... NASA in this case of changing the date from March 11, 2010 to March 1, 2010 is outright lying to the World as to when they shared the Earth had wobbled and its rotation had changed... So how do you figure that a move of a few CENTIMETERS over an 8000 mile diameter is a "major rotation change"? |
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