Most seismologist see earthquakes regularly on screen. We look at the wiggles and try to process them so that we can find useful information about the Earth’s structure. But did you ever listen to earthquakes?
Here are just some links to pages where you can dive into the earthquake sounds:
- Listening to earthquakes on USGS
- On soundcloud
- Earthquake music
- Seismic Sound Lab of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University)
But it would be perfect if you can listen to the earthquakes you process! Go on the webpage of Zhigang Peng: Earthquake Sound of the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake or visit this IRIS: Data Services Products: SeisSound. There, you can get Matlab code to convert seismic data to an audio format. Try it out and share it!
