• Question: if there was an earthquake on mars would it be called a marsquake?

    Asked by Molly_2507 to Philip on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Yeah, and if it happened on nestles it’d be a nestlesquake.
      Actually it’d probably just be a quake. When we say earthquake, we don’t mean Earth in the sense of the planet (in fact not all of the planet quakes), what we mean is the ground. So, right, we should’ve called it a groundquake, but we didn’t.

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