TY - JOUR AU - Lecocq, Thomas AU - Hicks, Stephen P. AU - Van Noten, Koen AU - van Wijk, Kasper AU - Koelemeijer, Paula AU - De Plaen, Raphael S. M. AU - Massin, Frédérick AU - Hillers, Gregor AU - Anthony, Robert E. AU - Apoloner, Maria-Theresia AU - Arroyo-Solórzano, Mario AU - Assink, Jelle D. AU - Büyükakpınar, Pinar AU - Cannata, Andrea AU - Cannavo, Flavio AU - Carrasco, Sebastian AU - Caudron, Corentin AU - Chaves, Esteban J. AU - Cornwell, Dave AU - Craig, David AU - den Ouden, Olivier F. C. AU - Diaz, Jordi AU - Donner, Stefanie AU - Evangelidis, Christos P. AU - Evers, Läslo AU - Fauville, Benoit AU - Fernandez, Gonzalo A. AU - Giannopoulos, Dimitrios AU - Gibbons, Steven J. AU - Girona, Társilo Girona AU - Grecu, Bogdan AU - Grunberg, Marc AU - Hetényi, György AU - Horleston, Anna AU - Inza, Adolfo AU - Irving, Jessica C. E. AU - Jamalreyhani, Mohammadreza AU - Kafka, Alan AU - Koymans, Mathijs R. AU - Labedz, Celeste R. AU - Larose, Eric AU - Lindsey, Nathaniel J. AU - McKinnon, Mika AU - Megies, Tobias AU - Miller, Meghan S. AU - Minarik, William AU - Moresi, Louis AU - Márquez-Ramírez, Víctor H. AU - Möllhoff, Martin AU - Nesbitt, Ian M AU - Niyogi, Shankho AU - Ojeda, Javier AU - Oth, Adrien AU - Proud, Simon AU - Pulli, Jay AU - Retailleau, Lise AU - Rintamäki, Annukka E. AU - Satriano, Claudio AU - Savage, Martha K. AU - Shani-Kadmiel, Shahar AU - Sleeman, Reinoud AU - Sokos, Efthimios AU - Stammler, Klaus AU - Stott, Alexander E. AU - Subedi, Shiba AU - Sørensen, Mathilde B. AU - Taira, Taka'aki AU - Tapia, Mar AU - Turhan, Fatih 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