Did the 26 December 2004 Sumatra, Indonesia, Earthquake disrupt the Earth's rotation as the mass media have said?

The answer to this question is a definite yes. But then again, the same is true of any earthquake, large or small, or for that matter of any worldly event that involves mass transport, from atmospheric and ocean seasonality, to melting of glaciers and tropical storms, to a bus driving around town. All one needs to convince oneself of this is to invoke the conservation of angular momentum and apply it to the Earth system. The real question should be, Did this particular earthquake disrupt the Earth's rotation to a level large enough to be noticeable, or, technically observable? The answer is a sobering hardly, but at the same time very exciting in scientific implications.