{"id":7235,"date":"2012-02-16T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2012-02-17T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:13:34","slug":"the-soundtrack-of-our-unquiet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2012\/02\/the-soundtrack-of-our-unquiet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The soundtrack of our unquiet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>I’ve coming down off an intense few weeks’ of travelling: first to this years’ ScienceOnline conference<\/a> (some thoughts about which might appear here soon), then to a conference on Hawaii’s Big Island (which I’ll definitely be writing about), and then a brief detour into Ohio. I almost feel like I’ve seen more of O’Hare airport in the last month than I have of my flat, which as anyone who has spent time in O’Hare will tell you, is not a good thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, as I warm up my blogging muscles, I thought I’d quickly share an excellent video brought to my attention on Twitter by fellow All-geo blogger John Stevenson, which rather cleverly visually – and aurally – sums up global earthquake activity in 2011. Given the nature of seismic waves, I think that adding sound is a really nice touch; you might, like me, think there’s a possessed typewriter somewhere in your home, but it really brings home that earthquakes really do happen all the time, even if only the really big and\/or unfortunately located ones make the news. <\/p>\n