Posted on 03/12/2011 6:23:38 AM PST by NYer
Quake science isn’t very good. There are so many unknowns — it’s not like weather where you can look at any place in the atmosphere that you can send a probe.
Moves where? What do these words mean?
I’m guessing this is their latitude’s piece of the axis shift. No way St. Louis got jarred over by even an inch. It would be felt and how.
Global cooling?
Huh???
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Talking, I think, about a shift of the axis compared with where it would have been without the quake. Earth isn’t all solid, it is also mush and liquid. When that uneven mass gets jiggled around, so does the angle of the axis of the planet’s spin in space.
The Earths axis is shifting very slowly all the time By centimeters and millimeters. It takes several weeks of measurement taking to determine precisely how those shifts are far for the time several weeks ago.
This is scientist looking for their 15 minutes of fame or journalist who are looking for a headline...wait a few weeks for the real data and then we will know. Right now this is just hype.
The real situation is on the ground in Japan. Prayers up.
Journalism majors who can’t put what they actually mean on paper?
Ok, question for today: How long will it take for Japan to rebuild? Will it be before New Orleans is rebuilt? Or Detroit? Just asking !!
In the article, the 3rd *’d point states: * Earth’s axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan’s coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.
You’ll have to ask the NGS where it moved to.
Yes. Do a google search on Earth Orientation Parameters or Polar Motion...NGA and USNO have the best resources, though you may find simpler explanations elsewhere.
I would help more but I am on my way out for the day.
FRegards,
Every time I write about a physical pole shift I am ridiculed. Well, perhaps not ridiculed. More like ignored.
But, as these things move massive amounts of mass and weight, one has to wonder if there is a tipping point at some time.
And then a couple of meters would be more like a few hundred kilometers.
My son lived in Honshu at one time. He’s here with me now...safe at home in the USA.
Yes, if it shifted the axis 10 inches closer to the sun, things are most absolutely going to be warming up.
I don't see any "chocolate cities" hit. So I'm guessing it will happen pretty quickly in Japan.
Doesn’t that mean an issue with GPS alignment? Perhaps that is the answer to St Louis reportedly moving ... someone is looking at a precise GPS measurement and the answer is one inch different than before.
Wait until the New Madrid fault lets go. St Louis will move to a new Zip Code.
I believe the Christmas quake in Indonesia created a change in the axis as well.
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