Do Gravitational Waves Cause Tiny Earthquakes?

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From Space.com:

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... In the new study, researchers focused on gravitational waves with frequencies of 0.05 to 1 hertz, a band largely overlooked by other detection efforts.


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Do Gravitational Waves Cause Tiny Earthquakes?

There was an experiment on Apollo 17 that was designed to use the moon as a resonant mass gravitational wave detector, but it failed to work because of a design error.

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/humanexplore/exploration/exlibrary/docs/apollocat/part1/LSG.htm

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