A color-coded graph shows the rise and gradual subsidence of underwater sound from the earthquake that touched off an Asian tsunami last December.
A SNAPSHOT OF THE POWER OF THE EARTH: If you have speakers, you might want to turn them up, way up, for the sound clip @ Eerie recording captures sound of tsunami. "The audio recording of the quake starts out silent. A low hiss begins and the intensity builds gradually to a rumbling crescendo. Then it tails off but, frighteningly, builds again in waves as Earth continues to tremble.... "If you were diving even hundreds of miles away you could hear this," said study leader Maya Tolstoy of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "You would hear it as sort of a 'boom.'"
Then you'd surface and leave the ocean as quickly as possible.
Posted by Vanderleun at March 25, 2005 9:42 AM | TrackBackActually, assuming you were far enough off-shore (that is, the water under you was deep enough), the ocean would be the safest place to be, since a tsunami is barely noticeable until it hits land.
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