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The earthquake that killed of people in Chile on February the 27th probably our days. The huge 8.8 magnitude was one of the most powerful ever . Experts say it was 500 bigger than the one that hit Haiti in January. Richard Gross, a NASA , believes the Chile trembler changed the Earth’s position. He said our planet’s moved sideways by 8cm. This is enough to make Earth spin faster, which would cut the of a day by 1.26 microseconds.

More than 700 people died in the natural . Aid say over 2 million have been affected. Half a million homes have been or destroyed. The NASA statistic is one that will cause people less than the ones affecting human lives. The is tiny – our days are now 0.00000126 seconds shorter than they were before the earthquake. It would take a million days for us to lose a second. Mr Gross said he is not sure if his calculations are because one-millionth of a second is too short to .