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Quake accelerates Earth's rotation

Yesterday was just a tiny bit shorter because of the giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.

Quake accelerates Earth's rotation

Sat, 12 Mar, 2011 - 08:49

Yesterday was just a tiny bit shorter because of the giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.

Nasa geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that Earth’s rotation sped up by 1.6 microseconds.

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