Insanely Huge Marsquake Had Energy Equal to All Previous Quakes Ever Seen, Scientists Say
Earth isn’t the only world in our solar system with volcanoes and earthquakes: Mars, Venus, and many of the larger planets’ moons have also been observed shaking, twisting, cracking, and spewing lava or other internal contents onto their surface as well. A marsquake tracked by Earth scientists earlier this year has had its power quantified for the first time, and the results are off the scales. 💬 "The energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other marsquakes we've seen so far," seismologist John Clinton of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, said in a Wednesday news release. ‘[A]nd although the event was over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer."