RE: Chile quake may have shortened day
March 3, 2010 at 7:07 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2010 at 7:09 am by Shell B.)
It is totally awesome that an earthquake can do that. I've read papers about the possibility that it could happen. That being said, I am none the less amazed. Sometimes we get a nice reminder that we are on a rock floating through outer space.
It is an awful scenario. I'm sure it was very frightening and tragic for witnesses and victims. It must have been nothing short of awe-inspiring (and I don't mean that in a good way). I read somewhere that when you figure in the exponential increase in power as the points go up on the scale, the Chile quake can be measured as 500x as powerful as the Haiti quake. I'll come back with a source for that, in a moment.
Here's one. Not the same, but it will do. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/28/...-2010feb28
It is an awful scenario. I'm sure it was very frightening and tragic for witnesses and victims. It must have been nothing short of awe-inspiring (and I don't mean that in a good way). I read somewhere that when you figure in the exponential increase in power as the points go up on the scale, the Chile quake can be measured as 500x as powerful as the Haiti quake. I'll come back with a source for that, in a moment.
Here's one. Not the same, but it will do. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/28/...-2010feb28
