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A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.

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“Astronomers call⟳ the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave⟳ of energy was seen to flow⟳ outwards, rippling through the centre of the Crab Nebula.”

“2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link⟳, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference, page 96, Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive⟳ matter⟳ toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape⟳, and excite precession.”

“2000, Carl Sagan, Jerome Agel, Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective [new edition of 1973, The Cosmic Connection], page 260, Should the core be solid, starquakes are expected — a shifting of the matter⟳ under enormous stress⟳ in the interior of the star. Such starquakes should produce⟳ a discontinuous change⟳ in the period of rotation of the neutron star. Such changes, called "glitches," are observed.”

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