Earth’s axis wobbles, your day’s shorter

The earthquake-cum-tsunami packed such fury that it has moved Japan's main island, Honshu, by about 8 feet. It's also caused the Earth's axis to wobble by about 4 inches – something that experts say will lead to the shortening of the day by 1.6 microseconds, or just over a millionth of a second.

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Each time the earth quakes, there seems to be trouble brewing for everyone.

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By anonymous• 14 Mar 2011 07:32

Wow, Lesser time to work and more time to PARTY!

By FathimaH• 14 Mar 2011 07:30

Scary thought..Audubillah!

Of course this devastating situation is inevitably going to bring on now great changes not only in Japan but around most if not all parts of the world.

By s_isale• 14 Mar 2011 07:18

would this kind of wobbling resulting in the sun rising from the west in the long run?

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Earth’s axis wobbles, your day’s shorter

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