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AU - Niyogi, Shankho
AU - Ojeda, Javier
AU - Oth, Adrien
AU - Proud, Simon
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AU - Savage, Martha K.
AU - Shani-Kadmiel, Shahar
AU - Sleeman, Reinoud
AU - Sokos, Efthimios
AU - Stammler, Klaus
AU - Stott, Alexander E.
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AU - Taira, Taka'aki
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AU - van der Pluijm, Ben
AU - Vanstone, Mark
AU - Vergne, Jerome
AU - Vuorinen, Tommi A. T.
AU - Warren, Tristram
AU - Wassermann, Joachim
AU - Xiao, Han
PY - 2020
DA - September
TI - Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
JO - Science
EP - 1343
VL - 369
IS - 6509
DO - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd2438
AB - Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused widespread changes in human activity, leading to a months-long reduction in seismic noise of up to 50%. The 2020 seismic noise quiet period is the longest and most prominent global anthropogenic seismic noise reduction on record. Although the reduction is strongest at surface seismometers in populated areas, this seismic quiescence extends for many kilometers radially and hundreds of meters in depth. This quiet period provides an opportunity to detect subtle signals from subsurface seismic sources that would have been concealed in noisier times and to benchmark sources of anthropogenic noise. A strong correlation between seismic noise and independent measurements of human mobility suggests that seismology provides an absolute, real-time estimate of human activities.
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science
UR - https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/15126
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Environment, community and place
ER