Do the equivalent of earthquakes (moonquakes) occur on the moon?

Answer 1

Now, I can't swear to this, because I was half asleep when I watched this, but I watched this show on the Discovery channel about a week ago. They were talking about how the earth has a molten core that is constantly moving around, so therefore we have earthquakes. The moon is solid, so therefore, no earthquakes. That's also why we don't see many of the craters from asteroids that hit us over the millions of years because our earth's surface is continually changing from these earthquakes.

Answer 2

While it's true that there are no plate tectonics on the Moon to cause moonquakes the way we have them here on Earth, there *are* moonquakes. They are pretty small, but they happen. When the astronauts went to the moon, they brought seismographs and detected some.

Here's some basic info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonquake

Here's a recent article about "recent" activity on the Moon, suggesting the Moon might not be as "dead" as we thought: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09nov_moonalive.htm?list135591

Answer 3

We get earthquakes because the earth's plates are sliding around over a big molten core of hot stuff. Since the moon does not have a big molten core and plates that shift over said molten core there are no such thing as moonquakes.

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Answer 4

No "moonquakes" can occur since the moon is a dead astroid without an active core. Same as there is no volcanos on the moon.