Earthquake: Will WWV skip or add seconds?
If the earth slows down or speeds up, our clocks might be wrong. To synchronize
celestial time with earth time, WWV makes occasional adjustments to UTC.
What will happen this time?
Excerpt of news story:
Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute, likened the
quake's power to detonating a million atomic bombs the size of those dropped on
Japan during World War II, and said the shaking was so powerful it even
disturbed the Earth's rotation.
``All the planet is vibrating'' from the quake, he told Italian state radio.
Other scientists said it was early too say whether the rotation was affected by
the quake.
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