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Coronavirus lockdowns reduced human ‘rumble’ – Yahoo News Australia
Ground vibrations produced by human activity took a big dive when Covid restrictions were in force.
The rumble generated by humanity took a big dive during the Covid lockdowns.
Everything we do – from driving our cars to operating our factories – produces ground motions that can be detected by seismometers.
An international team of researchers says this noise fell by up to half when coronavirus restrictions were enforced.
The period March-May represents “the longest and most prominent global anthropogenic seismic noise reduction on record”, they tell Science journal.
The group obtained the…
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