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When does low tide happen?

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In most places, two high tides and two low tides occur daily. Tides happen because the moon's gravity is pulling on the Earth and its oceans. The oceans are fluid and can move more than the land, so they move towards the moon. As the moon revolves around the Earth, it creates high tides and low tides. Whichever location the moon is at, there is a bulge in the oceans on that side of the Earth. There is also a bulge on the opposite side of Earth. These areas are experiencing a high tide. The places that are not bulging are experiencing a low tide, because of all of the ocean water has moved into the bulges.

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About 6 hours 22 minutes and a few seconds after high tide.

The tides are a regular sea movement, driven by the Moon's gravity.

The mean time between High Tide and Low tide is 6 hours 22 mintes, and a few seconds. The a further period of the same length of timer takes the Low Tide back to High tide.

This is a constant movement. It does NOT stop . In any period of 24 hours, there will be either two high tides and one low tide , or one high tide and two low tides.

The tides never stop , they either flood or ebb .

The reason why the time between high and low tides is such an 'awkward' number is because the Earth rotates one in 24 hours , presenting a given point to the Moon for high tide. However, the Moon is alos moving in its orbit about Earth. This extra bit of movement add those 22 minutes on to the tide times.

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Since every object in the universe interacts with every other object, no matter how minor the level of interaction, technically the tidal effect is present on every major object in the universe.

If you are referring to where low tides occur on Earth, everywhere that has beaches. Low tides are caused by the moon's gravity, which causes the water to shift with the moon's orbit. When the tide is low, the moon is 'pulling' the water toward it, causing the tide to be high somewhere else. Low tides, therefore, occur on any part of the planet opposite the side the moon is on.

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Low tide happens a little less than twice a day. What time of day low tide does occur depends on the Moons position on the day in question, and your location in the world, and changes from day to day.

Accurate tide information is available on the internet, commercially, and on some weather reports. Try your local weather service.

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it depends on the cycle of the moon and the placement in the sky

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High tides and low tides generally occur in 13 hour cycles.

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Tides are caused by the gravity of the Moon. The times of high tide and low tide vary from place to place, and from day to day.

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when i saw so

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