Earth Axis Tilt Change 2024. The tilt of the axis for something as large as the planet usually doesn’t change, but the massive water shifts can affect it. The earth’s axis has tilted by 31.5 inches (nearly 80 centimeters) due to significant groundwater extraction, according to a groundbreaking study published in geophysical.
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening. Axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle at which a planet rotates on its axis.
