according to a recent study by a seismologist john but all of the university of southern california the earth's core is changing ok so see back in the 1970 s. during the cold war arms race the u.s.s.r. tested nuclear weapons in russia's. islands those tests 2 of m m particular were so powerful that they were powerful enough to travel over 4000 miles through the earth's core to seismology equipment and montana using that data scientists have been trying to calculate the speed at which the earth's core a moon sized iron globe swimming in a sea of molten lava spins it has sort of been assumed that it spins at the same rate as. but these new calculations show that the earth's core is in what they call it super rotation it runs a couple of a tenths of a degree faster each year meaning the corresponding under your feet right now will be nearly 5 miles away in one year in addition some scientists figure as that the speed differences in the earth's core could be attributed to variations of the inner core surface creating fiction now this new data doesn't mean the old data is wrong it's just that we're