Chile’s massive Feb. 27 earthquake didn’t kill as many people as Haiti’s temblor a month earlier, but it may have shortened all of our days, according to NASA.
The magnitude 8.8 quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second), citing a preliminary calculation by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists.
Furthermore, the quake should have Continue reading »

