Human noise on Earth halved during pandemic lockdown
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Scientists say the sound human beings made vibrating across the Earth halved during the global lockdown caused by the new coronavirus pandemic. Researchers say they tracked what they describe as a 'wave of quietening' between March and May this year. Seismologists who measure the shaking of Earth's surface the drop in this kind of human-caused noise was unprecedented. Researchers examined data from a global network of 268 seismic stations in 117 countries.