thats still pretty impressive considering its the freakin EARTH...to cause the earth to change its rotation is a huge massive change.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, that's alot of power. The mass distribution of the Earth was shifted due to it which caused the distruption. And I think I remember hearing that the one of the islands in either Malaysia or Indonesia shifted south about 100 ft. Actually, the last earthquake with a 9.x magnitude was less than 50 years ago. It could hit anytime.