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NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day
Mar 1st 2010 – 6:37PM
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(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...
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