A NASA scientist calculated that the recent powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Chile last Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis by eight centimetres (three inches) and thus made shortened Earth days by 1.26 microseconds.
Chile quake moved Earth's axis, shortened days: scientist [via]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Installed FortiClient recently but the challenge in disabling the application/service from running automatically on every start-up annoyed m...
-
If you have been reading the mainstream media or the social media, it is likely that you would have heard of SimplyGo - an initiative by the... -
Gartner Report on the Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms as published on 26 Jan 2021. -
As of today, Google will start using a new shortened url - g.co , to promote Google websites. g.co works differently as compared to a long-t...
-
New set of date ranges for the 12 13 zodiac signs Capricorn - Jan 20 to Feb 16 Aquarius - Feb 16 to Mar 11 Pisces - Mar 11 to Apr 18 Ar...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Do provide your constructive comment. I appreciate that.