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Follow up on: “The sound of COVID-Silence”

June 26, 2020
Follow up on: “The sound of COVID-Silence”
Check out our blog post on "The sound of COVID-silence"

Dear colleagues, In the last months, there has been a storm both in traditional and social media about the observation that the Covid-19 lockdown measures cause an unprecedented seismic urban “silence”, which is observed globally on many urban seismic stations. It is the first time that such a protracted noise reduction has been observed on a global scale at the same time. To gather all seismologi ...[Read More]

The sound of Covid-silence

April 29, 2020
The sound of Covid-silence
Check out our blog post on "The sound of COVID-silence"

  As lockdowns have come in place all over the globe, workplaces have closed, people are sticking to their homes, and perpetual traffic jams have reduced to a trickle [1]. This results in eerie sights, where the lone bypasser walking through deserted streets cannot but wonder whether they’ve accidentally missed the memo on the apocalypse. The world is coming to a halt and this results in… sil ...[Read More]