The devastating earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Japan on Friday
can be moved almost 10 cm axis of rotation of the Earth
, according to a study
preliminary National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy (INGV).
The INGV, which since 1999 examines the numerous seismic events recorded in Italy, as
the devastating earthquake in the region of Abruzzo from April 6, 2009, explains in a note
that the impact of the earthquake in Japan
on the Earth's axis may be the second
more
of that record.
"The impact of this event
on the axis of rotation was much greater than the
great Sumatra earthquake of 2004 and probably the second largest, behind only
by
Chile earthquake of 1960 " said the statement.
Between 200 and 300 people died in Japan's Miyagi province (east) in the tsunami caused by the earthquake in Japan, which also caused at least 89 other victims and 349 missing in all
Japan's territory.
is feared the death toll to rise as advances count, as there are buildings destroyed in several areas and in some places
the tsunami did the waters go deep as five kilometers inland.
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