Curious facts about Japan earthquake….

”I’ve been reading about some pretty astounding impacts of last week’s 8.9 earthquake. For instance, there’s the fact that the quake not only shook Japan, it moved the country. Specifically, pushed it Westward by about 8 feet. The US Geological Survey confirmed this to Space.com, as well as the fact that the quake shifted Earth’s axis by 6.5 inches. And then, there’s the news from a lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where geophysicist Richard Gross has found that the quake also sped up Earth’s spin, just a little a bit. Days are now 1.8 microseconds shorter, by his estimation.”