{"id":1203784,"date":"2023-11-16T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203784"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:23:21","slug":"listen-to-the-seismic-sounds-as-iceland-braces-for-likely-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203784","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the seismic sounds as Iceland braces for likely volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland is mostly a barren waste of lava fields. (credit: Vincent van Zeijst\/CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Intensifying seismic activity these past few weeks along Iceland’s southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula<\/a>\u2014marked by tens of thousands of earthquakes, as many as 1,400 within one 24-hour period\u2014has experts warning of a likely volcanic eruption<\/a> at any time. While such activity is typically monitored by seismometers, seismologists at Northwestern University are also listening to the data<\/a> collected by the region’s Global Seismographic Network station using an app they developed a few years ago called Earthtunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the app<\/a>, those earthquakes can sound like slamming doors<\/a> or hail pelting a window or roof. \u201cThe activity is formidable, exciting, and scary,\u201d said Suzan van der Lee<\/a>, a Northwestern seismologist who co-developed Earthtunes. \u201cIceland did the right thing by evacuating residents in nearby Grindavik and the nearby Svartsengi geothermal power plant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sonification of scientific data is an area of growing interest in many different fields. For instance, several years ago, a project called LHCSound<\/a> built a library of the \u201csounds\u201d of a top quark jet and the Higgs boson, among others. The project hoped to develop sonification as a technique for analyzing the data from particle collisions so that physicists could \u201cdetect\u201d subatomic particles by ear.\u00a0Other scientists have mapped the molecular structure<\/a> of proteins in spider silk<\/a> threads onto musical theory to produce the “sound” of silk<\/a> in hopes of establishing a radical new way to create designer proteins. And there’s a free app for Android called the Amino Acid Synthesizer<\/a>\u00a0that enables users to create their own protein “compositions” from the sounds of amino acids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland is mostly a barren waste of lava fields. (credit: Vincent van Zeijst\/CC BY 3.0) Intensifying seismic activity these past few weeks along Iceland’s southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula\u2014marked by tens of thousands of earthquakes, as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1203784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}