Quake may have made Earth wobble"> Quake may have made Earth wobble

Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.

Don’t worry, though, it shouldn’t affect that wonderful GPS you got for Christmas but, hopefully, you were kissing someone important at the moment.

On a related note, the seismic computers in Geneva, primarily used to snoop for underground nuclear tests, picked up the pre-tsunami earthquake that caused the whole mess. Unfortunately, the folk there were all gone for the holidays.