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n. A quake on the planet Mars, perhaps caused by land tides or volcanic eruptions.
Usage examples of "marsquake".
I thought at first that the roof had caved in because of a Marsquake, but I think it was just the localized effects of the strain the ripper put on this area near the door we forced.
So, barring one of the very rare major Marsquakes, I can’t see any likelihood that the cavern itself will collapse.
If there's a major marsquake, every seam will be torn out, tunnels breached .
And then the underlying clays had been blown away, or a rare marsquake had shaken the region, and the rock had shifted to a new position, exposing a different surface.
So, barring one of the very rare major Marsquakes, I cant see any likelihood that the cavern itself will collapse.
Earth and the planets release accumulating internal stresses through sequences of small disturbances—earthquakes, Marsquakes, Jupiterquakes.
But the temblors recorded by the seismographs were discrete short-period shocks, like explosions rather than marsquakes.