Friday's earthquake, which was 8.9 on the Richter scale, was so powerful that it moved Japan's main island, Honshu, 2.5 meters (8 feet) and shifted the world's axis by atleast 8 centimeters (4 inches). This resulted in the day being cut short by 1.6 microseconds, just under two millionths of a second.
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