{"id":384071,"date":"2010-03-03T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/03\/chilean-quake-shifted-earths-rotational-axis\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:52:23","slug":"chilean-quake-shifted-earth%e2%80%99s-rotational-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384071","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Quake Shifted Earth\u2019s Rotational Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.drudge.com\/~r\/retort\/~3\/yh43MeSNvbA\/chilean-quake-shifted-earths-rotational-axis\" >Chilean Quake Shifted Earth&#8217;s Rotational Axis       <\/a><br \/>Chile&#8217;s massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth&#8217;s overall mass, scientists from NASA say. As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter than it was before Saturday&#8217;s magnitude 8.8 earthquake. &#8220;The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds [millionths of a second],&#8221; Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Bloomberg. &#8220;The axis about which the Earth&#8217;s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds [about 8 centimeters or 3 inches].&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/retort\/~4\/yh43MeSNvbA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilean Quake Shifted Earth&#8217;s Rotational Axis Chile&#8217;s massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth&#8217;s overall mass, scientists from NASA say. As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter than it was before Saturday&#8217;s magnitude 8.8 earthquake. &#8220;The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}