02 March 2010

Chilean earthquake energy outflow

Data from NOAA depicting the "distributed energy" in the aquatic realm.   The NYT has a companion map overlaid with tsunami arrival times (24 hours to reach Japan).  Via PopSci.

2 comments:

  1. Apparently the earthquake also shortened earth days by 1.26 milliseconds and shifted the earth's axis 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds). Interesting...

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  2. Sorry, I meant to link that: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

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