But I am hard pressed to believe there is a correlation.
Energy bursts are not "star quakes'.
X-rays, EM and visible spectrum light emissions are not known to cause physical disruptions in anything, but we have seen results with high intensity laser bursts affecting light weight receptors designed to react to them.
This star burst occurred many, many years ago, before we saw it, so gravitational effects would have had to travel the speed of light to have had any effect, which we are really not sure can occur, as I understand it. Some seem to think it is much faster than that and nearly instantaneous. A huge gravity wave or distortion would have been felt in other ways however. Not one quake in one small area.
That is all my laymen knowledge on this, but it is a interesting theory to explore.
Thank you for your input - you've made some good points. It is interesting to think about.
Well, this is true. But on the wrapper I have in my currently nicotine stained fingers, Starbursts are energy quakes.
And sweet too.
Nope. Gravity waves do not travel faster than the speed of light.
Here is the explanation of the use of the star quake reference.
A magnetar is a superdense neutron star with a magnetic field thousands of trillions of times more intense than that of the Earth. Scientists believe that SGR 1806-20's giant burst of energy was somehow triggered by a "starquake" in the neutron star's crust that caused a catastrophic disruption in the magnetar's magnetic field. The magnetic disruption generated the huge burst of gamma rays and "boiled off" particles from the star's surface into a rapidly-expanding fireball that continues to emit radio waves for weeks or months.