Chile Earthquake, March 2010

According to NASA said the 8.8 Richter scale disaster shifted the earth’s axis and shortened Earth’s day by 1.26 millionths of a second. The Chilean quake was a thrust earthquake, which occurs when a large section of the Earth's surface, in this case, the Nasca tectonic plate, dives beneath an adjacent plate. The fifth largest quake in hundred years temporarily redistributed mass too.

(Image credits: reuters)