{"id":4455,"date":"2011-03-14T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2011-03-14T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:15:22","slug":"repost-japan-quake-may-have-shortened-earth-days-moved-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/repost-japan-quake-may-have-shortened-earth-days-moved-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth\u2019s rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth\u2019s mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/84068\/japan-quake-may-have-shortened-earth-days-moved-axis\/\">Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth\u2019s rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/repost-japan-quake-may-have-shortened-earth-days-moved-axis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}