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Which Statement About Starquakes Is CORRECT

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Which statement about starquakes is CORRECT?


A) Starquakes are the cause of glitches in pulsar signals.
B) Starquakes are caused by stresses in the crusts of neutron stars that form close binary systems and exert tremendous forces on each other.
C) Starquakes are caused by stresses in the crusts of magnetars due to their enormous magnetic fields.
D) Starquakes cause rents in the crust of a neutron star and allow gamma rays and X-rays to escape from the interior, like the coronal holes in the Sun's atmosphere.

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