MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The short answer to this is yes. But the effects of such a shift are tiny. The Earth's tilt and rotational spin on its axis as it travels around the Sun causes our seasons. The earthquake in Japan moved the axis of rotation by around 16 cm. That might sound like a lot, but it's small compared to the size of the Earth. 1 degree change to the tilt of the axis of the Earth would mean moving it by around 110 km.
But the quake's interference with our axis doesn't stop there. The Japanese landmass was moved around by as much as 4m. This redistribution of mass on the surface changes our angular momentum which is compensated for by changes in our rotation about the axis. After the earthquake it's quite possible that our days will be 1.8 millionths of a second shorter because of this shifting.
Comments
That's 13.1232ft.
by cmaukonen on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 3:06pm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
by Resistance on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 5:50pm