The massive earthquake that devastated Chile and caused tsunami warnings in Hawaii may have also literally knocked Earth off its axis.
The quake, which measured 8.8 on the Richter Scale, may have also made our days shorter, according to NASA’s Richard Gross.
This type of small change to the Earth’s axis shouldn’t have much of an effect [...]

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Just what the people of Haiti did not need. There was another earthquake in Haiti yesterday, an aftershock which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale.
This was the strongest aftershock yet from last week’s devastating 7.0-magnitude quake.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of [...]

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Amazingly, the CBS News Investigative Unit has acquired video tape of buildings collapsing in Port-au-Prince during the Haiti earthquake last week, the country’s worst since 1770.
The quake had a magnitude of 7.0 and precipitated dozens of aftershocks.
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The video (below) starts off innocently enough, but before long the ground starts shaking and smoke [...]

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie acted fast to help those who have been affected by Tuesday’s horrific 7.0 earthquake in Haiti.
“We are devastated by the news from Haiti,” the couple said in a prepared statement. “We will work closely with our good friend Wyclef Jean to support the humanitarian efforts on the island and help [...]

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Those pesky Haitians.  Just when you were ready to start worrying about them, Pat Robertson has swooped in to clear things up.
Don’t worry about that nasty 7.0-magnitude earthquake.  You see, Haiti deserved it.
Hear Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic comments regarding the disaster here.
That’s right.  Robertson says they “swore a pact to the devil” and brought this upon [...]

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Many people are wondering what they can do to help Haiti in the wake of a 7.0 earthquake that has potentially left up to 100,000 people dead and destroyed towns and villages.
Can one person really make that much of a difference?  The answer is “yes”.
Here are just a few ways you can help:
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It was the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years, and now the prime minister says that over 100,000 may have been killed.
“I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out. Because we have so much people on the streets right now, we [...]

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As much of Haiti lies in total devastation, social media allows us to catch a glimpse of the catastrophic damage that has been done, almost in real time.
As we have already seen, singer Wyclef Jean, who was born in Haiti, has been tweeting about the destruction almost constantly since yesterday’s massive 7.0 earthquake hit. [...]

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Wyclef Jean is stepping up and asking for help for the millions of people affected by the incredibly destructive magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday.
According to his tweet, the Haitian-born singer is headed to his homeland this morning,
“I am on my way to the D R to get to haiti Please urge you council [...]

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Cue up the R.E.M. ’cause “it’s the end of the world as we know it.”  Yet another strong earthquake has struck, this time in Peru.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck South America on Wednesday near Bolivia’s capital of La Paz.  This quake, however, was not felt by many residents and mines in the area.
At first, [...]

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