Earthquake tilted earth's axis & moved Japan by 2.4 meters

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Berlin/Washington - Japan's strongest earthquake on record that triggered a destructive tsunami appears to have moved the main island by 2.4 metres and shifted the Earth on its axis, scientists said Saturday.

'We know that one GPS station moved (2.4 metres), and we have seen a map from GSI (the Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass,' Kenneth Hudnut, a US Geological Survey geophysicist, told broadcaster CNN.

Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said according to preliminary results of a study it conducted that Friday's 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the Earth on its rotation axis by nearly 10 centimetres.

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Meanwhile, the March 11 tremors shifted the Oshika Peninsula near the epicenter by just over 17 feet and dropped it by just over 4 feet, the Geospatial Information Authority in Tsukuba, Japan, reported Saturday.

Those two land mass movements are records for Japan, according to government figures.

The global positioning system data from the Tsukuba University-based authority revealed the peninsula on the Pacific coast moved in an east-southeasterly direction toward the epicenter. The quake also moved land masses in many areas ranging from the northeastern region of Tohoku to the Kanto region including Tokyo, the authority said.

Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/japan.disaster/index.html?hpt=T2

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