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A recent study by Korean researchers revealed that the inclination of the Land changed 78 centimeters and the human being is to blame because his need to extract underground water to drink and irrigate fields is altering the mass of the planet and making its axis it wobbles. According to the team, we have displaced a body of water so large that our home tilted 78.5 centimeters to the east between 1993 and 2010, affecting Mexico.
That Land change the position of your axis As now, it represents a danger to Humanity because it could potentially increase the amount of sunlight received by the poles, which would favor an increase in the melting of the poles, which would cause sea levels to rise, further altering the distribution of the mass of the planet. The new study was led by researchers from Seoul National University and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
“The redistribution of groundwater has the greatest impact on the drift of the rotation pole, which is the point around which the planet rotates, and where the imaginary axis would stick out if it were a physical object. Unlike geographic north and south, which remain in a fixed position, the pole of rotation of the Land varies relative to the crust, a process called polar motion,” said Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University.
This is how it affects Mexico that the AXIS of the Earth is leaning to the east
The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed, so when water is removed from one part of the planet, the axis begins to move and wobble. Although the wobble of the axis of the Land does not affect our daily life, it could affect Mexico and the rest of the countries when wanting to obtain precise data in GPS, satellites and terrestrial observatories.
It was in 2016 the first time that scientists announced that the distribution of the vital liquid could change the position of the axis of our home. It is also now clear that humanity’s use of drinking water is also responsible for this inclination. During the study period, most of the water was redistributed in western North America (region where it is located Mexico) as well as northwestern India, both in mid-latitudes.
Drawing groundwater over several decades could alter the change in polar drift, as the team detailed, however, according to the researchers, water movement is not the only factor affecting the position of the axis of rotation. Molten iron sloshing into Earth’s core, melting ice, ocean currents, and hurricanes are all other causes of wandering poles.
The redistribution of water from the mid-latitudes, the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; between where it is Mexico, has a greater impact on rotation pole. According to the study, if the North Pole (where our country is located) approaches the equator, the Earth’s axis of rotation will lean more towards the sun, which could heat up the hemisphere where Mexican territory is located.
Although, for now the change of the axis of the Earth does not have a significant impact, on much larger ‘geological’ time scales polar drift can potentially have serious impacts on climate.
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