CNN: Quake Moved Japan Coast 8 Feet, Shifted Earth's Axis.
(CNN) -- The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis.CNN deliberately doesn't tell you what direction Japan moved because if they did it would falsify Plate Tectonics.
"At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (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," said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy estimated the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters). ...
The quake occurred as the Earth's crust ruptured along an area about 250 miles (400 kilometers) long by 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide, as tectonic plates slipped more than 18 meters, said Shengzao Chen, a USGS geophysicist.
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The eastward shift was documented by Japan's Geonet network of GPS monitoring stations, based in Tsukuba, said Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program in Pasadena, Calif. Similar shifts took place during last year's 8.8 earthquake off the Chilean coast, as well as the 9.1 earthquake near Sumatra that caused a disastrous tsunami in 2004.
I do not see anyone "hiding" the direction of the shift except for you.
How does the direction of the shift falsify plate tectonics?
They have to say Japan shifted eastward towards California because otherwise their religion would be falsified.
Did Japan shift 8 feet east from Asia or 8 feet towards California?
If Japan shifted westward away from California, obviously the Pacific Ocean is growing (and it is).
If Japan shifted 8 feet up towards the GPS satellite, obviously that would indicate the radius of the Earth is growing, etc.
They have to say Japan shifted eastward towards California because otherwise their religion would be falsified.
Hmmmm... GPS Satellites are not holy relics, the data they provide are not delivered by a host of angels, no hairy dude living in a cave wrote the technical specs and the relativistic math required to time the distance measurements.
Plate tectonics is adhered to and studied because it is scientifically rigorous, not because we get together to celebrate the Ascension of Our Lord Wegener. Any GPS data you can find shows that Asia is moving east while the Pacific is subducted beneath it. This is the prediction of good science and is borne out by observation.
Additionally, Japan has an area of 377,835 km² (although I don't think all of that is claimed to have moved). How much mass do you have to add to the Earth to move all of that rock? What is the mechanism of expansion? Why there, and not under, say, Indianapolis?
In short, the ones going on faith here are the Expanding Earth proponents.
Hanging on to dead hypotheses in the face of overwelming evidence is far more regligious than updating your thinking when you find out you are wrong.
Its sad, really, as you were really on to something with your posts about Biblical history. I enjoyed those... but now you're back to classic dead horse beating.
Japan's altered coastline dropped two feet. Nothing expanded. Sorry.
"Any GPS data you can find shows that Asia is moving east while the Pacific is subducted beneath it."
Simply not true.
In fact all scientific data demonstrates that Japan and California have moved away from eachother over geological time.
Ignore this: Muller, R.D., et al., Age, Spreading Rates and Spreading Symmetry of the World's Ocean Crust, Geochemistry Geophysics and Geosystematics, Volume 9, Q04006, 2008
Ironically, by denying Expansion Tectonics you also deny biological evolution and pacific vicariance, since pacific vicariance is impossible without expansion tectonics.
"The notion of random, and sometimes two-way, 'rafting' across the wide oceans ... evinces, however, a weakening of the scientific outlook, if not a confession of doubt from the standpoint of organic evolution." -- Alexander Du Toit, geologist, 1844
"The mole genus Urotrichus is confined to Japan and California." -- S. Warren Carey, geologist, 1996
http://cddis.nasa.gov/926/slrtecto.html shows the motion of the Asian plate as primarily eastward. The Pacific plate subducts beneath it. When the Pacific plate failed the other day, Asia lurched forward. No growth.
And as for "The mole genus Urotrichus is confined to Japan and California."
Genus Urotrichus has only one member, that of Urotrichus talpoides, endemic to Japan only. Try again.
Question: If Earth just got bigger, why did it speed up?
Jeffery,
Obviously you've never heard of Urotrichus pilirostris.
However, this is really just a red-herring in order to ignore the "Trans-Pacific Zipper Effect" in biogeography.
"In brief, what appears to be a multi-era tangle of convoluted, trans-oceanic distributions on Panthalassa-based paleomaps is actually a relatively simple biogeographical pattern that is explainable by a single vicariant event: the opening and expansion of the Pacific." -- Dennis J. McCarthy, biogeographer, 2003
McCarthy, D.J., The Transpacific Zipper Effect: Disjunct Sister Taxa and Matching Geological Outlines That Link the Pacific Margins, Journal of Biogeography, Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 1545-1561, 2003
McCarthy, D.J., Biogeography and Scientific Revolutions, The Systematist, Number 25, Pages 3-12, 2005
McCarthy, D.J., Biogeographical and Geological Evidence for a Smaller, Completely-Enclosed Pacific Basin in the Late Cretaceous, Journal of Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 12, Pages 2161 - 2177, 2005
McCarthy, D.J., et al., An Alternative Gondwana: Biota Links South America, New Zealand, and Australia, Biogeografía 2, Pages 2-12, Jul 2007
"If Earth just got bigger, why did it speed up?"
It didn't: Ravilious, K., Wind Up, New Scientist, 2002
What I saw on CNN is that the title wave started in the upwards position.
Urotrichus pilirostris was recently removed from the genus Urotrichus.
Try to keep up.
As for your notion that the earth didn't speed up...
It didn't.
Really?
The earthquake appears to have altered the earth's axis, moving it by 6.5 inches, a shift that has sped the rotation of the earth, thereby shortening the day by around 1.8 millionths of a second.
Following last year’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, Richard Gross estimated the Chile quake should have shortened the length of day by about 1.26 microseconds and shifted Earth’s figure axis by about 8 centimeters (3 inches). A similar calculation performed after the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake revealed it should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted Earth’s figure axis by about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches. How an individual earthquake affects Earth’s rotation depends on its size (magnitude), location and the details of how the fault slipped.
Jeffery,
Excellent job ignoring the "Transpacific Zipper Effect" in biogeography.
"The notion of random, and sometimes two-way, 'rafting' across the wide oceans ... evinces, however, a weakening of the scientific outlook, if not a confession of doubt from the standpoint of organic evolution." -- Alexander Du Toit, geologist, 1844
"It may justifiably be said that a majority of Australian zoologists, as well as many botanists, believe that Australia has in past time been connected by land with South America, and that a considerable proportion, both of its plants and animals, has been derived from the latter Continent by land migration." -- Launcelot Harrison, zoologist, 1924
"How can we account for the phylogenetic similarities of the biotas of southern South America and New Zealand?" -- Robert H. MacArthur, biogeographer, and Edward O. Wilson, biologist, 1967
"In earthworms, Microscolex and Rhododrilus of New Zealand are closely allied to Microscolex and Yagansia of Chile and a Notiodrilus from the Auckland Islands is close to a Patagonian species." -- S. Warren Carey, geologist, 1996
"The Pterygophinae sawflies and the scorpion family Bothiuridae are confined to to Australia and North America." -- S. Warren Carey, geologist, 1996
"...the Ordovician trilobites being similar on both sides of the Pacific coast...." -- Stavros T. Tassos, seismologist, 1997
"In brief, what appears to be a multi-era tangle of convoluted, trans-oceanic distributions on Panthalassa-based paleomaps is actually a relatively simple biogeographical pattern that is explainable by a single vicariant event: the opening and expansion of the Pacific." -- Dennis J. McCarthy, geoscientist, 2003
"A series of recent biogeographical analyses delineates a zipper-like system of sister areas running up both margins of the Pacific, with each section of western North and South America corresponding to a particular section from East Asia/Australia/New Zealand. These sister areas coincide neatly with a jigsaw-like fit provided by the matching Mesozoic coastlines that bracket the Pacific." -- Dennis J. McCarthy, geoscientist, 2003
QF,
If Japan did move 8 feet towards California, what they are deliberately not telling you is how Japan moved up -- towards the GPS satellite.
If Japan did move 8 feet towards California, what they are deliberately not telling you is how Japan moved up -- towards the GPS satellite.
I already told you the affected land dropped.
Keep beating this dead horse of EE, Oils, you'll just look more like an ass as you do it.
Three words Jeffery: "American Shrew Mole." Read them and weep.
"I already told you the affected land dropped."
So because you said it, it must be true? Wishful thinking again?
Does this mean the Earth is shrinking?
If Japan moved up then hopefully that will provide a little more dam-barrier protection against future title waves.
If Japan did subside two feet, then one might check what the ocean floor did at the site of the quake. Bet it rose quite a lot.
OilIsMastery, good call. I thought this was a possible evidence of Expanding Earth Theory.
Also, it would be interesting to check at different locations for subsidence or uplift.
Keep up the good work. You are covering a lot of different ground these days.
Anaconda.
Interesting. But I think that is important study the real causes of earthquakes. In my opinion, Dr. Thomas Gold pointed out good ideas about origin of earthquakes. Understanding origin of natural hydrocarbons, Earth formation and its evolution, monitoring precursors phenomena such as methane clouds, levels of radon, helium, mud volcanism paroxism, changes in animal behavior, etc, can save many lives.
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