http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/11mar_figureaxis.htm
March 11, 2010: Pictures of widespread devastation leave no doubt: Last month's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in coastal Chile was strong. How strong? NASA scientists say it might have shifted the axis of Earth itself.
"The Chilean quake shifted enough material to change the mass balance of our entire planet," Gross says.
"If our calculations are correct, the quake moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm)," says geophysicist Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
A very interesting article. Earth is growing! Again an earthquake shifts mass up and outward. Funny how earthquakes never seem to make lower areas. They make huge cracks and deep holes, but that is due to expansion, not constriction. When the earth shakes and rumbles, it expands- it grows!
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Given the earth's figure axis has shifted 8cm, one has to wonder how the ancients would have viewed the astrological significance of such an event?
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