This is pretty much the most remarkable thing I\'ve read in a long time:

Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile\'s massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth\'s overall mass, scientists from NASA say.

As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter than it was before Saturday\'s magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

Can\'t argue with the power involved there.. I\'m just floored.