The February 27th, 2010 earthquake off the coast of Chile has again started reports of the length of the day changing. This is reminiscent of the 2004 quake in the Indonesian area tha also was reported to have changed the length of the day.
In the news article: Chilean
Earthquake May Have Shortened the Length of a Day on Earth
by Nancy Atkinson, it is reported that the 2010 quake changed the length
by 1.26 microseconds and the 2004 quake had a resulting change of 6.8
microseconds. Both of these measurements are a shortening of the day.
According to the article, the source of the information was JPL.
The source is probably considered very reliable, so let's assume the
information is accurate for the sake of further discussion.
Many other reports have discussed the resulting day length change being caused by the speeding up of the earth's rotational speed. They have stated that the increase in speed is the result of the contraction in the size of the earth. The comparison has been made to figure skaters pulling their arms in during a spin to increase their rotational speed. This sounds plausible until you use some common-sense and regularly observable changes that should continue, to try and understand the principle.
First - For the earth to contract like a figure skater, the tectonic plate material that moved towards the center would have to either fill a void or increase the internal pressure of the earth. The weight of the plate(s) did not change as a result of the quakes, so increased internal pressure can be dismissed. Thus, the material would need to fill a void. Using the example of figure skaters when their arms are pulled in during a spin to increase rotational speed. However, unlike figure skaters having a void to pull their arms into, the earth has no voids for the tectonic plates to go to (unless the hollow-earthers are correct). This is a common-sense reason why an increase in the earth's rotational speed is unlikely.
Second - Let's look at a regularly observable change that would result if the earth began to spin faster. Geo-Stationary Satellites would continually and regularly lag behind and would no longer be considered stationary. A small change would foul the syncronization of our satellite dependent systems. Even our TV signal dishes would need to be adjusted on a recurring basis to maintain picture quality. This problem could be corrected by the organizations controlling the satellites, given enough time and money. However, it would probably be news-worthy to report a change executed on hundreds of space-based systems. To date, I have not heard about this and so far, there seems to be no world-wide complaints of poor picture quality using a dish at home. Again, an increase in rotational speed falls short in explaining a day length change.
Let's return to Nancy's news article and look at further information provided her by JPL. It is reported that the 2004 earthquake shifted the earth's axis by about 7 centimeters or 2.76 inches and the 2010 quake shifted it by 8 centimeters or 3 inches. In layman's terms, the earth tilted back those lengths in relation to the solar plane. This would shorten the day in the northern hemisphere during the winter with a corresponding lengthening of the day in the summer. Conversely, the sourthern hemisphere would see an opposite effect. The failure of responsible organization to report this kind of information is not the problem we should be concerned with. The issue is much bigger!
Those familiar with the phenomina known as a Earth Crust Displacement (aka: poleshift or crust shift) will see that any movement of our planetary tilt in an indication of a pending catastrophic event. Unless the earth's core shifted its solar-plane axis in the same fashion as the outer crust, we are looking at small indicators that we are currently undergoing a crust displacement.
Before you dismiss the phenomina as impossible, I would like to draw you attention to Professor Maloof's work. This Princeton University faculty member conducted a number of studies on the possibility of such events and has even hosted a television broadcast displaying his conclusion that Earth Crust Displacements have happened. While the professor and I disagree on how long the event took to culiminate (See Here), we are in agreement that the events in our past are real and have indeed taken place. Therefore, if it has happened in the past - why should we discount it happening in the future?
At this point we need to look at these earthquakes and the changes in the length of the day in a new light. A simple "which came first" - the quake or the tilt? A cause and effect view of the events will be enlightening.
As I discussed in The Causes of Tectonic Plate Stress earthquakes have a cause. They are not automatically happening. There is an identifiable reasons for the stress to build enabling the quakes to happen. So, when we examine the tilt changes that are measureable following the earthquakes, we should be considering the very strong possibility that the forces that resulted in a change in our tilt are the cause of the earthquakes and not the other way around. Should our polar caps be influenced by centrifugal force towards the equator and be bound to their present location by tectonic plates, extreme stress will in fact build. When this stress is released, you have major earthquakes and a slight movement of the earth's crust that can and will be displayed as a changing in our tilt. The change that could be seen as a changing in the length of our day.
If the books written by Brown, Hapgood, and myself are correct (probably are), the events leading up to a Earth Crust Displacement will be miniscule at first and will build in intensity until the final catastrophic event culminates. It is not too late for us to take action to possibly prevent it. Read up on the Crust Displacement theory and act accordingly. Dinosuars and Wooly Mammoths could not do anything about shifts; but, WE CAN!
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