On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Move the slidebar back and forth across the images. > The third one down, Sendai, shows the course of a river has changed. > According to a CNN story, the axis of the Earth changed ~10 cm from the > effects of this earthquake, and parts of Japan moved 2.4 m based on GPS > readings. Here is another estimate that it was 25 cm: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365821/The-day-earth-really-did-How-Japanese-earthquake-tilted-worlds-axis-25cm.html > That's gotta confuse the whole standard of the GPS system to some extent.
The earth's day has also changed several milliseconds. T
