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Japan earthquake factbox: Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches
Vancouver Sun ^ | March 11, 2011

Posted on 03/12/2011 6:23:38 AM PST by NYer

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To: Vermont Lt

Yep!


41 posted on 03/12/2011 7:16:51 AM PST by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: kjam22

It makes no sense at all to say an axis shifted in inches. What is the shift in arcseconds?


42 posted on 03/12/2011 7:17:12 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: bobsunshine

Where is Obama; golfing or having another party or OBSESSING with MO about bullies and fat kids?


43 posted on 03/12/2011 7:18:52 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Magnum44

What does it mean for the earth’s axis to shift 10 inches? Will it mean bad weather or good weather or what?

Does it affect the way we see the moon at night, the shift?

Questions, questions, I got questions!


44 posted on 03/12/2011 7:19:15 AM PST by Buddygirl
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To: NonValueAdded

My gps unit usually has me driving in the cornfield next to the road anyway. I hope the 10 inch shift will put me back on the street. My wife is getting a little pissed about having to pick the stalks out of the grill.


45 posted on 03/12/2011 7:19:47 AM PST by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: NYer
Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

Damn. That's shocking.

46 posted on 03/12/2011 7:19:59 AM PST by dragonblustar
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To: HollyB

I remember reading that. Also created more talk on the U.S, madrid fault line.


47 posted on 03/12/2011 7:20:14 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: SunkenCiv

48 posted on 03/12/2011 7:22:04 AM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: NYer
* St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.

Farther to the left, I would imagine.

49 posted on 03/12/2011 7:22:25 AM PST by Spartan79 ("We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed." ~ Ths. Jefferson)
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To: hattend
St Louis moved an inch due to the quake? Really?

Yeah, I thought the drive to Springfield seemed quicker.

50 posted on 03/12/2011 7:23:01 AM PST by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Incidentally, one can get beaten up in school simply by referring to oneself as one.)
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To: GreyFriar
Japan is right where it's always been.

The universe got knocked cattywampus.

51 posted on 03/12/2011 7:25:24 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

BREAKING NEWS the shift moved Obama to a golf course from his party. < / sarcasm >


52 posted on 03/12/2011 7:27:22 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: NYer

Has anyone heard from our FReeper friend Americanin Tokyo?


53 posted on 03/12/2011 7:30:43 AM PST by thethirddegree (Islam is a vile, barbaric, perverted, depraved,seditious cult invented by a murdering pedophile)
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To: TopQuark
The earth rotates like this... It can wobble one way or the other.


54 posted on 03/12/2011 7:31:39 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: eak3

Who cares about the Japanese, we got some high pay union jobs to save and death threat thugs to feed in WI. (sarc off)


55 posted on 03/12/2011 7:31:47 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: NYer
St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.

To the left or right?

56 posted on 03/12/2011 7:32:10 AM PST by ozark hilljilly (Y'all had enough, yet?)
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To: GreyFriar
You’ll have to ask the NGS where it moved to.

You are correct. As stated, those words sound like sensationalist nonsense to me.

57 posted on 03/12/2011 7:32:10 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: RummyChick
The SuperMoon guy still hasn’t posted on his website or Twitter about the current event. Seems odd as he was predicting something like this could happen. It is a couple of days outside his time frame. One was March 1-7

March 1-7 would be a new moon, whereas we're just about at the first quarter moon. The two times the moon (if we're using the theory that the moon would affect earthquakes) would be at the strongest influence would be during the new and full moons when the moon is in alignment with the sun.

This road has been trod so many times, but hey, if someone wants to recreate it once again, have at it. Earthquake researchers, outside the immediate aftermath of a large earthquake sequence, are some of the most friendly people I've ever come across when it comes to sharing data.

58 posted on 03/12/2011 7:34:13 AM PST by kingu (Legislators should read what they write!)
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To: unixfox

I understand that part. The words “shifted X inches” suggest a parallel displacement. If so, where? Does not make sense to me; or, at least, I cannot make sense of this news.


59 posted on 03/12/2011 7:34:48 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: NYer
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.

There is not enough information here.
How much mass moved in what direction relative to the center of the earth?

The spinning earth is like a gyroscope. Depending on which direction the mass moved, the axis of rotation can precess. It can slow down or speed up the normal precession.

The Chilean earthquake (2/28/2010) was estimated to have moved Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters, or 3 inches). Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet). This is accounts for the uneven distribution of mass on the surface of the earth.

A milliarcsecond is 1/3,600,000 of a degree. This is not a big deal.

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60 posted on 03/12/2011 7:35:26 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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