Marsquaken.
/ˈmɑːzkweɪk/, U.S. /ˈmɑrzˌkweɪk/ Astronomy.
A tremor or violent shaking of part of the surface of Mars.
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1930 R. A. Knox Caliban in Grub St. vi. 91 There is nothing majestic about an earthquake unless there are men to know about it and to feel the consequences of it; there is no importance at all about a Mars-quake, if such things occur.
1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. 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.
1976 Globe & 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.
1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. xviii. 470 Viking 2 had the additional scientific value that its seismograph could measure marsquakes... Some marsquakes have been detected.
1993 G. Bear Moving Mars 452 While I read the plaque, the ground shivered with a small marsquake.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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