I read today that the earthquake that spawned the horrific tsunami through the Indian Ocean pushed the entire island of Sumatra more than 100 feet.
I looked it up. Sumatra is about the size of Arizona and Nebraska combined. Damn.
Knowing as little about plate tectonics as I do about almost everything else, I'm fearing there will be aftershocks, more tsunamis. (A threesnami?) And with that enormous displacement of mass and energy, I'll bet the rotation of the earth will be affected, too. It won't be noticeable except to the extraordinarily precise instruments now in orbit, but I'm covering bets. Watch this space.
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That's interesting, but you failed to mention how this tsunami affected Paris Hilton???
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