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$\mathcal{M}et(M)$ carries many natural (= invariant under the action of the group of diffeomorphisms of $M$) Riemannian metrics. See the following papers (and references therein):

  • Martin Bauer, Philipp Harms, Peter W. Michor: Sobolev metrics on the manifold of all Riemannian metrics. Journal of Differential Geometry 94, 2 (2013), 187-208. (pdf)

In particular, for the Sobolev order 2 metric the curvature is continuous so Q2 has a positive answer.

A more quite recent paper concentrating on the well-posedness of the geodesic equations for Sobolev metrics is this one.

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