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Marsquake, n. Astron.|ˈmɑːzkweɪk|
Also marsquake.
[f. Mars n., after earthquake n.: cf. moonquake n., quake n.]
A tremor or violent shaking of part of the surface of Mars.
1968R. A. Lyttleton Mysteries Solar Syst. iii. 87 It would clearly be of the greatest interest and importance to know whether moonquakes, marsquakes, and so on, occur on these other bodies. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Sept. 1/2 Viking 2, at rest in the plains of a Martian Utopia, began ‘feeling’ the rocky slopes for signs of Marsquakes yesterday. 1978Pasachoff & Kutner University Astron. xviii. 470 Viking 2 had the additional scientific value that its seismograph could measure marsquakes... Some marsquakes have been detected. 1993G. Bear Moving Mars 452 While I read the plaque, the ground shivered with a small marsquake. |