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Originally posted by ThEeNd
yeah i have heard of it. the earths rotation has increased due to the earthquake that caused all those sunamies (sorry i dont know how to spell that) and our days are shorter now by like hundreths of a second. not much of and increase of speed
Originally posted by MiTo
Originally posted by ThEeNd
yeah i have heard of it. the earths rotation has increased due to the earthquake that caused all those sunamies (sorry i dont know how to spell that) and our days are shorter now by like hundreths of a second. not much of and increase of speed
and it was stated that things would be much worse if quake had taken place further from equator
Yep, mass in equator has biggest angular momentum, or actually it's just mass which is farthest away from rotation axis.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
Are you sure about that? I thnk that you have that backward. It seems to me that the greatest amount of angular momentum would be closest the the equator.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
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Are you sure about that? I thnk that you have that backward. It seems to me that the greatest amount of angular momentum would be closest the the equator.
Originally posted by otlg27
the reason [for the shortening of the day] is that the quake occurred along a subduction fault and as a result the earth is EVER so slightly smaller
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by otlg27
the reason [for the shortening of the day] is that the quake occurred along a subduction fault and as a result the earth is EVER so slightly smaller
Oh wow, thats what it was all about? I had actually thought that the thing somehow rocked the planet or somesuch, which didn't seem quite right. From what I understand this is something that they had to look for very intently no?
Originally posted by Jans2004
My question for this is because one change of the Angle of the Earth with i think i heard it was 1 angle, can do a lot on weather and climate in general, meaning, worst hurraces, more sunnamis. etc.... this also makes more factable of the 12-21-2012 prediction of the mayas (The end of 1 earth cicle)..be awared i'm not talking about the end of the earth.