Earthquake causes shorter days

[L.Jane]

I thought this article was interesing:

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis



To sum it up it says that "The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second."

It goes into how its happened before in the opposite way and its not really a big deal.

I thought it was a fun bit of trivia to know

[ladymoreta]

Neat! Hehe I love this kind of thing...

Another random piece of trivia that I saw on a friend's FB status - today's date is 3210! (3/2/10)

[bokelley]

Wow very interesting. I had a college professor tell our class once, that every time the space shuttle takes off, it knocks the earth off orbit some 100th of a millimeter.