Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: The recent earthquake in Chile shifted the planet’s axis by about 8 cm and shortened days by 1.26 microseconds ‘The changes can be modeled, though they’re difficult to detect physically given their small size. … Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted. … Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake.
And, we get a great reader submission from Aaron, and his run-in with Tom. 
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Dave, Bolton, UK
(1:10am Sat 13th March)
SO did the change in the earths circumference change the density and the effects of gravity?
Richter scale? Really?
I thought you were better than that. MMS has been used since the 70′s by the Geologists.