Moonquakes - Mechanisms and relation to tidal stresses

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May 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977sci...196..979t&link_type=abstract

Science, vol. 196, May 27, 1977, p. 979-981.

Physics

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Lunar Tides, Moonquakes, Tectonics, Lunar Seismographs, Selenology, Stress Distribution, Terradynamics

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Observed features of moonquakes are combined with theoretical calculations of the tidal stresses to interpret the moonquake mechanisms. Tidal stresses, together with a postulated ambient tectonic stress, are sufficient to explain the depth, periodicity, and polarity reversal of moonquakes. Both of these stresses are small (on the order of 1 bar) and consistent with the small magnitudes of moonquakes.

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