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Earth began changing shape in 1997

Emily

Editor, Senior Moderator
I've wondered if this could be the reason for some of the unusual intraplate earthquakes we've been having lately.

Why is Earth's Girth Bulging?
John Roach
for National Geographic News
August 7, 2002

This is heavy.

Something massive is moving on or within the Earth and causing the planet's gravity field to get wider around the equator and flatter at the poles, according to a pair of scientists studying the field with sensitive satellite instruments...

NASA Research Offers Explanation for Earth's Bulging Waistline
2002 News Releases
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December 6, 2002

A team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the Royal Observatory of Belgium has apparently solved a recently observed mystery regarding changes to the physical shape of Earth and its gravity field. The answer, they found, appears to lie in the melting of sub-polar glaciers and mass shifts in the Southern, Pacific and Indian Oceans associated with global-scale climate changes....
 
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