Coronavirus: Earth Trembles Less According To Experts

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

This pandemic is creating substantial changes in the environment, that has already been proven. Now, seismologist experts around the world are noticing something very peculiar directly related to this coronavirus outbreak.

If we take into account that more than three billion people around the world are isolated in their homes participating in this massive quarantine to prevent the spread of the nefarious Covid-19 virus, the figures are truly incredible, so much so that two months ago it would seem like data worthy of science fiction.

So it is somehow understandable that if more than 40 percent of the world's population is paralyzed, experts in the movement of the planet have felt a great drop in seismic noise, curiously, something they only feel once a year: about Christmas Day, says seismologist Thomas Lecocq from Brussels.

According to Lecocq, this indicates that people are truly following government orders to minimize activity outside their homes.

The vibrations in the earth's crust, according to Nature, feel the reduction of human transport, among other activities: moving vehicles, industrial machinery, something that when this sudden silence is stopped now allows experts to hear other vibrations around the world. world, including ocean waves.

Raphael De Plaen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Mexico, assured CNN that it could be used in the future to see where containment measures fail: “so that decision-makers can say: OK, we are not doing things right. We need to work on that and make sure that people respect it because it is something that interests us all.”