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Human-linked Earth vibrations dropped 50% during Covid-19 lockdown | Earth – EarthSky
Between March and May 2020, many people across Earth went into lockdown. During those months, seismographs recorded a drop in human-linked vibrations in the solid Earth, by an average of 50%.
You can see the human signal fall away as the world goes into lockdown. The first clip shows the wave of noise dampening as the world locks down. The second shows the UKs seismic noise
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