World | Japan earthquake Earthquake Moved Japan 8 Feet Earth's axis also shifted slightly By John Johnson Posted Mar 12, 2011 1:28 PM CST Copied A couple walks past upturned vehicles in the city of Miyako. (Getty Images) See 14 more photos Some numbers related to the Japan earthquake, from CNN and ABC: 8: Number of feet the coast of Japan moved eastward. 4: Number of inches the Earth's axis shifted. 160: Number of aftershocks in the first 24 hours, most of them with a magnitude of at least 5.0. 59 feet: How much tectonic plates slipped. 6 miles: How far inland some of the tsunami waves reached. "At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass," a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey tells CNN. For information on how to help, click here. Read These Next 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. The humans survived this flight; the deer on the ground didn't. Report an error