Hello All,
I just saw on the news that the recent quake in Japan shifted the earth's axis
by 4 inches and that the main island of Japan moved nearly 8 feet.
Could someone on the list put this into perspective? As an example, I would
imagine that the legal descriptions for property lines based
On 13 Mar 2011, at 13:44, J. Tallman jtall...@artisanindustrials.com wrote:
I just saw on the news that the recent quake in Japan shifted the earth's
axis by 4 inches and that the main island of Japan moved nearly 8 feet.
Could someone on the list put this into perspective? As an example,
Hi
Hopefully the link below will help you.
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php?index=missionlang=en
Note that there is also a special note about this Japanese megaquake.
Aimo Niemi
http://pc-calculator.110mb.com/gnomon/
2011/3/13 J. Tallman jtall...@artisanindustrials.com
Hello All,
I
The short answer is that any coordinate specification
has to be given in reference to a particular datum.
Here's the Wikipedia article on datums:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum_%28geodesy%29
Bravo, Tony Finch, for sharing this. I had no idea location was so
complex!
Thank you.
Mac
