devastating earthquake and tsunami last week in Japan in fact has moved the closest island to the United States and moved the axis of the planet.
The quake has caused a rift within 15 miles below the sea bottom that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to AP. Areas, especially in the epicenter of the earthquake jumped 13 feet closer to the size of the U.S. geophysicist Ross Stein, U.S. Geological Survey told the New York Times.
The world's fifth largest, has caused an 8.9 earthquake in the continental shelf of the Pacific plate dives under the North American plate, which will be transferred to Japan to eastern North America about 13 feet (see NASA before and after photo at right). The quake also shifted the axis of 6.5 inches, shorten the day 1.6 micro-seconds and sank in Japan, about two meters. Since the east coast of Japan sank tsunami waves in laminated
Why the earthquake shortened the day? land mass moved toward the center, which stimulates the planet to spin a little faster. The last earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in Chile has also shortened the day, but even smaller fraction of a second. The Sumatra earthquake of 2004 reached $ 6.8 microseconds big day.
After the earthquake of 1995, Japan has invested in high-tech sensors throughout the country to comply with even the slightest movement, so scientists can calculate the impact of the earthquake up to one inch. "This is by far the best major earthquake ever recorded," Lucy Jones, Chief Scientist, Multi Hazards Project U.S. Geological Survey, told the Los Angeles Times.
Tsunami waves need a rescue evacuation as far away as Chile. Fishermen off the coast of Mexico has reported a banner day of fishing on Friday and speculated that the tsunami pounded Sealife in their direction.
(The map shows NOAA's energy intensity of the earthquake tsunami in Japan. Reuters / NOAA Satellite Image Under the Japanese coast in motion. NASA)
CORRECTION: This article originally attributed Lucy Jones' interview to the The Boston Herald.
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