Excerpt

The following is from the Oct. 18, 2012, edition of Phys.org. Seismologists Brian Stump and Chris Hayward contributed to this research.

World's largest subwoofer: Earthquakes 'pump' ground to produce infrasound

 

October 24, 2012

 

Earthquakes sway buildings, buckle terrain, and rumble – both audibly and in infrasound, frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. New computer modeling by a team of researchers indicates that most of the low-frequency infrasound comes from an unexpected source: the actual "pumping" of the Earth's surface. The researchers confirmed their models by studying data from an actual earthquake....

Additional members of the research team include Relu Burlacu and Kristine Pankow, University of Utah; Brian Stump and Chris Haward, Southern Methodist University; and Richard Stead and Rod Whitaker, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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