Are there earthquakes on other planets?
No–or at least not that we know of– or have studied in depth. Earth is the only planet in our solar system that has been observed to have active plate tectonic activity in our crust. There is no current evidence of plate tectonic activity elsewhere in the solar system. So, you see, there is no evidence of earthquakes…errrrrrr, what I mean is, marsquakes, venusquakes, moonquakes, moonpies (mmmm, moonpies), and etc. elsewhere. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t–it’s actually more likely that there ARE– we just don’t know about them yet, as our data on planets outside our solar system is limited. Compared to the other planets in our solar system, Earth is pretty strange.
The Earth is cosmically seismic and totally celestially far-out, ma’an.
Mars, Venus, Mercury, and even the moon, show evidence of past tectonic activity. Earth is the only planet to display active tectonic activity. Mars, Mercury, and Venus show evidence of surface deformations in the form of characteristic tectonic geological formations such as mountain patterns, volcanoes, and patterns of impact basins. Mars even shows magnetic patterns showing the likelihood that it was once tectonically active. Keep in mind, none of these planets have had recent tectonic activity and have been tectonically inactive for billions of years.
Totally quakin’, like, bitchin’ dude.
This bull is really showing this planet who’s boss, I’ll tell you h’what.
Tsunami photocredit: DaveBlueDevil\
Taurus-bull horn induced quake photocredit: zaptel
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Craig Reed
May 1, 2008 at 12:47 pm
when the Apollo 13 3rd stage hit the moon, the Apollo 11 & 12 scientific instruments recorded the seismographic result - I recall a headline along the lines of “The moon rang like a bell” for almost 30 minutes . . . .
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