Earthquake Disrupted the Earth's Rotation
 

Scientists are now trying to figure out exactly how much.

http://news.google.com/news?q=earthq... b=nn&oi=newsr

dont think im going to notice this in my stats. ill have to check later.

doubt it has much effect

Who cares about earth? I live in Europe. </lamejoke>

Good, I didn't like where it was headed anyway

if you watch any shows on the discovery science channel, you will see that even the smallest effect in the rotation of this planet can cause major weather changes. therefore, even the slightest out of balance rotation can create havoc.

the end of the world is coming soon

Watch SoCal's weather turn into a climate like BC!

:feels-hot

damn, now how are we going to figure out the odds of that asteroid hitting us in 2039???? :cool-smil

yeah, it was a powerful little stir

as long as it doesnt put us out of orbit

From what I heard it may have caused the rotation to slow down but nothing that we will noticed. It has happened before and we didn't noticed it. This time it was a little bigger but they said still nothing we will notice.

Now yes there could be one that will some day change things a little, that is a given. Look at all the stuff the earth has done in the past. It's nothing new that the earth changes and shifts all the time. Nothing to get Chicken Little over!!! :laughing-

I hope the next major earthquake shakes the clothes off all of the hot women of the world.

I watched on the news that it actually sped up. Then a guy asked if this would change time and she laughed and said no... It's less then a milli second.

You should take Jay Leno's place on the tonight show.

The end is near. :drinkup

Thats actually very interesting. We could have very differnet weather patters because of a huge quake.

I always pictured the end of the world to be caused by a big earthquake or nuclear war.

LoL, funny

I could do without any more torrential downpours, lol.

if this is true, we are heading for some serious problems around the world

I heard about this on the news

Damn I guess we're all just gonna have to die then - better start up a cult to get a spaceship building program started up - Ill donate the purple tennis shoes

Let's sit down and worry about it :rasta

just a hype to get us all worked up, the alignment of the planets was supposed to do the same thing in like 2000.

W o w

sounds scary

Welll... my sales have gone up a bit. Maybe the faster rotation makes people a bit dizzy, and therefore easier to trick into signing up :conehead

would that be possible at all? :eek2

Hope the BIG ONE won't hit the west coast anytime soon :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh

Don't know - But what if the next one split the world in two?

I wonder what effect this has on the rest of the ring of fire. West coast could be in for something soon.

dat'sa pretty good joke bro :)

Yeah if anything big happens, I hope there won't be a giant tsunami :censored

If there was a tsunami millions would die and a lot of the porn industry might be wiped out..

We live in the west coast, and they're expecting a big one...

actually what they are expecting within the next 20 to 50 years is an ice age type climate over england. if the conveyor shuts off in the north atlantic (off the coast of britan), that is going to send weather patterns into a frenzy and it has been stated that england and a good portion of northern europe will become the new alaska.

Could be no big deal or REALLY bad.

Entertainment (escape) always does well during the hardest of times.

Sad, but true.

-Dino

some islands have moved by 30 miles

I'd rather have a Tsunami any day then an earthquake. At least with a tsunami we'd have some warning since the Pacific has an emergency warning system.

That's an interesting point. Does anyone know how long it was before the tsunami hit land after the earthquake?

-Dino

It took 2 hours to get to Indonesia, travelling at speeds as fast as 500mph.

Its pretty amazing when you stop to think about it. You have to wonder what a series of quakes like what just happened could do. Its not out of the realm of possibilty in our lifetime.

Escaping reality ... excellent point Dino!
(BTW Merry Christmas, Happy New Years and please send out a big WOOF to the crew!)

You're prolly right. But we should keep an eye on it.

And that is exactly why I feel sorry for most people (sheep) from an industrialized society ... so bent on making money, never taking the time to live, enjoying what they have been given. Live each moment as if it is your last!

Earthquakes vs. the Earth's Rotation
How major tremors alter the planet's wobble.
By Sam Schechner
Posted Monday, Dec. 27, 2004, at 5:05 PM PT

In covering the massive, tsunami-generating earthquake off the northwest coast of Sumatra this weekend, many news outlets picked up a statement from Enzo Boschi, head of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics, saying the temblor was strong enough to disturb the Earth's rotation. Can an earthquake really affect the way the planet spins on its axis?

Yep. As you'll recall from science class, the rotating Earth resembles a spinning top: The planet's axis does not always point in exactly the same direction but wobbles very slightly, describing small but measurable circles at the poles. A very large earthquake?one of a magnitude of 9.0 or greater?can shift enough mass relative to that of the entire Earth to alter, very minutely, the course of that wobble. But the planet's speed of rotation (which, of course, determines the lengths of our days) remains unchanged, so we don't need to worry about adjusting our watches.

Now that is some serious business!