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2004 earthquake News

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NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day

By David KnowlesMar 1st 2010 – 6:37PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

(March 1) -- Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth'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's magnitude 8.8...

Background on 2004 earthquake

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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