Chilean Quake Rocks / Daytime Length Rolls

It seems that the recent Chilean earthquake has had an impact on much more than simply the country of Chile. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory research scientist Richard Gross computed that the Earth's rotation should have changed because of the massive quake.

Our days are now a bit shorter - by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

You can read this report at:

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days