Comments on: Chile Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened the Length of a Day

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Nah.

By: martin nix

martin nix — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:34:06 +0000

Nice to see some people take serious my Planet Martin Nix hypothesis of the earth’s core moving around influencing earthquakes. i bet the US Navy has some work on this, in that it would be useful to know which earthquake is where and when. Yep, a lot of work needs to be done on it, but if you look at the data between the location of the moon, and the location of major earthquakes you will see some correlations. Martin Nix

By: su

su — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:13:22 +0000

i also think martin nix sounds like he has givin this some thought… magnetics are the next big discovery waiting in the wings for space ship launching and quiet travel

By: su

su — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:07:28 +0000

so, wow, everyone sounds so smart… well the earths core is not solid, however it is contained except for lava ect., change is eternal and the earth is in constant change not evolving but degrading, we evolve as we adapt… so enjoy it all while u can because soon all the water will displace and life will change again and again..so there, go smoke one and relax…

By: MCRumph

MCRumph — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:42:42 +0000

But if the earth’s core were to move and wobble around, wouldn’t that change the magnetic poles or play havoc with the magnetic field that is generated by the core?

By: Bongani Arthur

Bongani Arthur — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:20:00 +0000

It would be nice to be able to predict earth quakes….but at my 3rd year Geology class we were taught exactly what Luigi said “…caused by the pressure built up between the tectonic plates , and when a weak part giveway , they slip inder or by one another causing the tremblor.. “….it makes more sense, just like if you were to rub two rough rocks together. I do not discount the idea of the earth’s core moving around within the earth though. The earth’s plates are floating on magma isn’t it and the core is way way deep, so how does it bump against the fault line that is in the upper crust….well I am just a mining engineer and maybe some geologist/seismologists can enlighten us on that (Planet Martin Nix) hypothesis.

By: BDZ

BDZ — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:19:32 +0000

sorry William H read your post after mine lol…but yea i’m skeptical about this claim. I’m not a scientist.

By: BDZ

BDZ — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:18:03 +0000

I thought the earths rotation/orbit around the sun was a careful balance. Wouldnt billions of years of tectonic ativity, assuming some quakes ACTUALLY could change the speed of the earths rotation, eventually compound causing the earths orbit to change? If this were possible would the earth even exist? Has our orbit changed over the ages?

By: Vvixen

Vvixen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:31:52 +0000

10-4

By: William H

William H — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:06:52 +0000

They make these claims after every earthquake. Were this so, the Earth would have stopped rotating by now or would be spinning like Jupiter. Consider this: there is no set point in space from which to measure such an acceleration or deceleration. Instruments are not quite accurate to measure such by the relative movements of stars or planets, so it is assumptions, like much of junk science today. Too, far less than 1% of the mass of the planet is concentrated in the crust, which is 10 to 30 miles in thickness versus ~7900 miles. A movement of the crust, while it makes seismic waves that can be measured around the globe, is not able to alter the structure of the planet. It’s unlikely that anything less than a large collision would alter its orbital characteristics. Yes, there is a moment, a torque if you will, involved in crustal movelments due to the distance from the centroid of the Earth, but it’s still like a bacterial movement trying to move an elephant. These claims make for good reading, but they are not solid geology.