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Apart from a tsunami, there is another effect of this weekend’s earthquake in Chile. NASA says that days will now be shorter because the quake shifted Earth’s axis by three inches.
The change will result in days that are 1.26 microseconds shorter than before. That’s 0.00000126 seconds shorter.
Via: Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says – BusinessWeek.
Even in its hour of utter devastation, Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, teaches the rest of the world some valuable truths.
This Caribbean island nation of nine million people has right now a third of its population cut off from basic supplies of food, water, medicine or shelter. In the blink of an eye, the earthquake that hit the country has buried a capital city of three million people under rubble for which the eventual death toll may be between 100,000 and 500,000. Just like that.
Like shutting the proverbial stable door after the horse has bolted, the US and other world powers are promising to send emergency aid to Haiti. Well intentioned no doubt. But where was the aid and economic development assistance to Haiti – over half the population live on $1 a day and 80 per cent are classed as poor – in the years before this calamity? Read on…
Source: Finian Cunningham – www.globalresearch.ca
Five years since the Tsunami – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Five years ago, on Boxing Day, December 26th, 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake hit the seafloor of the Indian Ocean, causing tremendous waves of seawater to rush ashore as devastating tsunamis that left 230,000 people dead across 13 different countries – the fifth deadliest natural disaster in recorded history…..