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Default 01-03-2005, 03:45 PM

[quote:9e5ec]the Earth would have got a "little jog,"[/quote:9e5ec]

Doesn't say anything about the axis of the earth off by 6 degrees, or the days being shorter.

Their detecting a wobble, but that will probably steadily drop off after a few months or years and the earth will return to a normal orbit. Perhaps the quake did change the orbit in some way permanently, but I don't think it was enough to impact the days by 15 minutes, or change anything we'll ever notice.
  
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