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Japan earthquake shifts Earth's axis 10 centimetres
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March 14, 2011
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According to the Italian-based National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology, the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday
caused the axis of the planet  to shift by approximately ten
centimetres. Experts believe that 

According to La Nación, the impact of the Japanese earthquake caused an
energy release one hundred times larger than that of the earthquake
which struck Haiti in 2010. Leading the research at the National
Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Antonio Piersanti stated that 

Richard Gross, of NASA's , was responsible for discovering the extent to
which the Earth's axis had been shifted by the 2010 Chile earthquake. He
claimed that there 

Gross explained:  He said that despite the fact that  the planet's axis
would not alter in space.

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* NASA scientist: Chile earthquake may have shifted Earth's axis,
shortened day
== Sources == 

* http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1356841-hasta-el-eje-de-la-tierra-se-movio 
* http://fr.rian.ru/science/20110311/188832213.html 



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