New study favors violent mash-up Moon theory

A new study that analyzed isotopic differences in potassium contained in terrestrial and lunar rock samples is helping to shed light on the formation process that led to the creation of Earth’s Moon. The research could help reveal the nature of a cataclysmic collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body, which is believed to have taken place in the distant past.

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Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Water does amazing things and the moon does pull it about.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Water does amazing things and the moon does pull it about.

It’s tidal movement of the Earth’s crust they’re talking about, not water.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Water does amazing things and the moon does pull it about.

It’s tidal movement of the Earth’s crust they’re talking about, not water.

fluidity anyway.

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Earth musta had a hell of a force on moonquakes then.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Earth musta had a hell of a force on moonquakes then.

originally yes, and now earth has just made the moon egg shaped due to tidal locking.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about the moon:

Can the moon make an earthquake worse?

Answer: possibly

In a study published Monday in Nature Geosciences, a team of Japanese researchers say that they have found a statistical correlation between periods of excessive tidal forces and large earthquakes.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/09/can-the-moon-make-and-earthquake-worse

Earth musta had a hell of a force on moonquakes then.

originally yes, and now earth has just made the moon egg shaped due to tidal locking.

It would be an interesting scientific mission to check if the Earth does still cause moonquakes

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/15mar_moonquakes/

There are at least four different kinds of moonquakes: (1) deep moonquakes about 700 km below the surface, probably caused by tides; (2) vibrations from the impact of meteorites; (3) thermal quakes caused by the expansion of the frigid crust when first illuminated by the morning sun after two weeks of deep-freeze lunar night; and (4) shallow moonquakes only 20 or 30 kilometers below the surface.
The first three were generally mild and harmless. Shallow moonquakes on the other hand were doozies. Between 1972 and 1977, the Apollo seismic network saw twenty-eight of them; a few “registered up to 5.5 on the Richter scale,” says Neal. A magnitude 5 quake on Earth is energetic enough to move heavy furniture and crack plaster.

Furthermore, shallow moonquakes lasted a remarkably long time. Once they got going, all continued more than 10 minutes. “The moon was ringing like a bell,” Neal says.

more at url.

That’s pretty cool but potentially problematic for future moonbases.