Japan earthquake shifts Earth's axis 10 centimetres

March 14, 2011

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.