SHORTENED DAYS
Sunday's earthquake has affected the axis of the earth, accelerating the spin of the planet. This has caused a shortening of each day by a fraction of a second (I kind of thought that I was being shorted some time). Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.