I think it can because next week Venus, Neptune, Mars, the moon and Uranus will be in align and some scientist are saying that gravitational pull will tug on Earths tectonic plates and cause earthquakes. Cheers and happy weekend!
Not likely. Other than the moon, the other objects don't exert much force on earth. I suppose anything is possible though. You gave me a project...I will do the math to calculate the forces. Something to do other than waste time here.
Featured snippet from the web Image result for calculate force between two objects In order to calculate the gravitational force between two objects with masses of m1 and m2 , the equation is: where G is the gravitational constant (6.67E-11 m3 s-2 kg-1), r is the distance between the two objects, and F is the magnitude of the force between the objects.
This post was edited by Element 99 at November 18, 2018 8:00 AM MST
Technically, earthquakes can only happen on earth (hence the term "earth quake"). Seismic activity on other worlds would be named after that world (i.e - moonquake, Venusquake, Kepler-452bquake, etc).
Except for our moon, other planetary bodies in our solar system don't exert enough gravitational pull to greatly affect seismic activity on earth. They're just to far away.
The question asks only of Uranus. The answer to that would be no.
The answer to the by-line, a different question, seem a highly speculative perhaps, if all are in line; but individually I can't see that any of those bodies would affect the Earth much, certainly no more than normal. Our planet's internal forces on its own Crust are much greater than those from our neighbouring extra-terrestrial bodies.
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