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Can meteorites cause earthquakes?

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Absolutely. Meteorite is defined as “a meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground”. More than 90 percent of meteorites are of rock, while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel. read more

Meteorites cannot cause earthquakes as such but they do induce tremors felt over a large area just like earthquakes. It need not be a meteor strike, even a meteor burning in air close to earth can cause explosion and induced tremor. By definition, earthquakes are cause by movement across some fault plane. read more

Of course it can! All you have to do is have the tiny gravity of the comet pull in just the right way on a fault where the hypocenter is already at 99.99999999999% of its ultimate failure stress and that will bring it to 100% stress and, WHAMO, you get an earthquake. read more

Earthquakes are extremely rare in Michigan. The USGS has recorded just four earthquakes in the state since 1973, when the agency began measuring earthquakes in Michigan: a magnitude-3.5 earthquake in 1994; a magnitude-2.5 one in 2010; and magnitude-3.3 and magnitude-4.2 events in 2015. read more

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