{"id":10540,"date":"2020-03-29T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2020-04-05T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:10:59","slug":"covid-makes-the-earth-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/29\/covid-makes-the-earth-move\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Makes The Earth Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00965-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Nature (opens in a new tab)\">from Nature<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth moves<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Elizabeth Gibney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CAROLE KING (Live) - I Feel The Earth Move\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hoHuxpa4h48?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to lives and economies around the world. But efforts to curb the spread of the virus might mean that the planet itself is moving a little less. Researchers who study Earth\u2019s movement are reporting a drop in seismic noise \u2014 the hum of vibrations in the planet\u2019s crust \u2014 that could be the result of transport networks and other human activities being shut down. They say this could allow detectors to spot smaller earthquakes and boost efforts to monitor volcanic activity and other seismic events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A noise reduction of this magnitude is usually only experienced briefly around Christmas, says Thomas Lecocq, a seismologist the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, where the drop has been observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as natural events such as earthquakes cause Earth\u2019s crust to move, so do vibrations caused by moving vehicles and industrial machinery. And although the effects from individual sources might be small, together they produce background noise, which reduces seismologists\u2019 ability to detect other signals occurring at the same frequency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00965-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Nature (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Nature<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Nature Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth moves A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists. by Elizabeth Gibney The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to lives and economies around the world. But efforts to curb the spread of the virus might mean that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}