As if the days weren’t already too short…

NASA Details Earth­quake Effects on the Earth
Jan­u­ary 10, 2005

NASA sci­en­tists using data from the Indone­sian earth­quake cal­cu­lated it affected Earth’s rota­tion, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet’s shape, and shifted the North Pole by cen­time­ters. The earth­quake that cre­ated the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation.

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