Wow, the entire planet was moved by this quake…
Science@NASA: NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet’s shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters.
Seems to be I read something somewhere else disagreeing with that, but NASA seems like a credible source, no?
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