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"A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the
distribution of mass on the planet. When that distribution
changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. And the
rotation rate determines the length of a day."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

I think the max change was 1.6 micro seconds....I will have to live with that....

sixtysix wrote:

I think the max change was 1.6 micro seconds....I will have to live with that....

Well at least my Thermocompensated Quartz is still spot on. Too bad about all those Rolexs that are out of sync now.

So is the earth running slow or fast? Seems pretty much the same to me.

It's still within COSC.

I find it amazing they can measure the things they can measure.

I had heard about this ! Pretty incredible really !
At first it sounded like something out of a sci-fi movie,
but then I realized it was real, and permanent !

merichar wrote:

So is the earth running slow or fast? Seems pretty much the same to me.

The earth is spinning faster thereby shortening the length of the day. If such a disturbance in mass occurs via an earthquake causing a shortening of the day, it would seem possible that an earthquake that shifts the mass of the earth in a different direction could just as well lengthen the day????????? or, go fill up the 2 resevoirs in china!