Biggest marsquake was five times larger than previous record-holder

On the night of May 4, the seismometer aboard NASA's InSight Mars Lander detected a small earthquake on the Red Planet. According to new research, the marsquake was five times larger than the next largest earthquake on the planet. There will be more research related to the record marsquake presented this week at AGU's Fall Meeting in Chicago from 12 to 16 December.

The biggest marsquake that we have seen was this one. The marsquake service at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zrich is led by Kawamura and co-author John Clinton.

The cumulative energy from all marsquakes we've seen so far is equal to the energy released by this single marsquake.

Scientists can get a better idea of what lies under the planet's surface with seismology. Most marsquakes are caused by fault movements.

The previous marsquake had a magnitude of 4.2 and the May one had a magnitude of 4.7.

Clinton noted that surface waves, moving along the crust and upper mantle, have traveled around the planet multiple times.

The paper is accompanied by two more papers that cover the surface wave paths and velocities of the earthquake.

It took about 10 hours for the waves from the record-breaking earthquake to reach the ocean.

The epicenter was close to but outside the most active region on the Red Planet. Although a deep epicenter could be related to hidden features lower in the crust, the epicenter didn't seem to be related to known geological features.

There are two types of marsquakes, those with high-frequency waves and those with low-frequency waves. The recent earthquake exhibited characteristics of both high and low- Frequency earthquakes. There are two aspects of the same thing when it comes to low and high-frequency earthquakes.

The new research is the first to describe and analyze the data from this large earthquake, which were released by the Mars Seismology Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) data service, NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) and the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS),

During the four years since its landing, the solar panels have been covered in dust and the power has been cut off. At the end of the mission, we had a very remarkable event. He said the mission was an "extraordinary success" based on the data gathered from the earthquake.

A number of papers from his team and partners will be published in AGU's special collection on the event.

This type of data can help planetary scientists understand more about the evolution of the Red Planet.

There will be more exciting things following this.

The largest Marsquake was detected by InSight. There is a book titled "1029/2022GL101543."

Jiaqi Li and his co-authors wrote about different Martian crustal seismic velocities across the Dichotomy Boundary. There is a book titled "1029/2022GL101243."

There is anisotropy in the Martian Lowlands from surface waves. It was published on 10.1029/2022GL101508.

Journal information: Geophysical Research Letters