Tunguska, 1912, missed Western Europe by 4 hours.
The Asian earthquake was roughly the equivalent of 450 megatonnes of TNT, If the latest asteroid predicted to pass us by in 2029 actually hit, it would be around 2000 MT.. Thats some bang !
Steve
Where can I get one of those temporary windscreens, to be on the safe side?
Lee D
That particular bit of knowledge made not 1oz of difference to the amount of sleep I had, I got to bed around 2am, having finished the last of the nights breakdowns, was woken again at about 3am, to go and fix another one, back to bed for 4.30ish, then up at 7.
Had I had any spare sleep to lose, I don't think I would have lost any worrying about the tom-tom being in the middle of a herd of cows, instead of in lane2 of the motorway!!!
That same google translation of a single web site is doing the rounds, I suspect it's one of those plausible-sounding nonsense stories.
Quote from the United States Geological Survey..........
"Question: What effect did this earthquake have on the rotation of the earth? Answer: Richard Gross at JPL has modeled the coseismic effect on the Earth's rotation of the December 26 earthquake in Indonesia by using the PREM model for the elastic properties of the Earth and the Harvard centroid-moment tensor solution for the source properties of the earthquake. The result is:
change in length of day: -2.676 microseconds polar motion excitation X : -0.670 milliarcseconds polar motion excitation Y: 0.475 milliarcseconds
Since the length of the day can be measured with an accuracy of about 20 microseconds, this model predicts that the change in the length-of-day caused by the earthquake is much too small to be observed. And, since the location of the earthquake was near the equator, this model predicts that the change in polar motion excitation is also rather small, being about 0.82 milliarcsecond in amplitude. Such a small change in polar motion excitation will also be difficult to detect"
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