You Can See, Hear And Feel Quakes Now

You can now eavesdrop on some of the world’s largest earthquakes from deep inside the Earth, thanks to a new project that lets you seem hear and feel seismic waves created by massive temblors. A group of scientists and sound artists at US’s Columbia University, who leads the Seismic Sound Lab, have turned seismic waves into sound and images for an educational performance about earthquakes. The SeismoDome project coupled the sound of seismic waves to visualizations that researcher’s team created using computer code written by an astrophysicist to visualize models of formation of stars. The team sped up both the sound and visuals by a factor of several thousand. They also filtered the sound and visualized data to illuminate different types of waves in the Earth.