On Jul 18, 11:15 am, oldcoot wrote:
On Jul 18, 10:39 am, "Hagar" wrote:

The tidal flexing, as you call it, only affects the Earth's oceans. It is
far too puny to affect the landmass. The Earth has no tidal effect on the
Moon, since its rotational period coincides with its orbital period. No
flexing there...

The large scale flexing of which you speak did indeed stop when the
pair became tidally locked. But there's still gotta be some low-level
seismic noise from libration, interaction with the sun's gravity etc.
A Google under 'moonquakes' would probably turn up some info.

BTW, there are what's called 'land tides' on Earth, but they're of
much lower amplitude than ocean tides.

That's another good analogy way of putting it, as having "land tides".

Land tides of +/- ?? cm.

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