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30 August 2017
Moon’s tidal stress likely responsible for causing deep moonquakes, new study confirms
The same gravitational force responsible for creating tides on Earth could be causing deep quakes on the moon, a new study confirms.
A new analysis of data gathered by the Apollo missions confirms that tidal stress – the gravitational pull of the moon on the Earth and of the Earth on the moon – is responsible for causing deep moonquakes, the lunar equivalent of earthquakes.
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