Chile quake might have shortened days on Earth

**News Bot** · 02 Mar. 2010 10:24am

The massive earthquake that struck Chile last week might have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.

**Bman** · 02 Mar. 2010 10:41am

Hmmmm, does this mean 2012 is going to come by faster?

Or does it mean that days shortened, no final destination yet?

**chowchig** · 02 Mar. 2010 10:46am

@ post above me please actually read the story before posting

Soo..eventually with enough earthquakes the day will be shorter than it is now?

**Bman** · 02 Mar. 2010 11:03am

Chowchig, I did read it.. What im asking is, since the days are shorter, maybe it wont happen on that exact day, a couple days before maybe?

**Stormie** · 02 Mar. 2010 05:04pm

It's shortened by a micro second. It's like a millionth of one second. Nothing to fret over. =p

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