Standing on the shore of Icy Straights (opposite the entrance to
Glacier Bay) in Alaska one June evening, 6 of those in the
bioacoustic group I was leading were engulfed by this compelling wave
of infrasound which we couldn't actually hear but could only feel
resonating throughout our bodies. I figure it was somewhere around 12
- 14Hz given the periodicity. It was, as they say in the vernacular,
an awesome moment. Seemingly coming from everywhere, we had no idea
what it was since there was nothing mechanical we could see and the
nearest human dwelling was 8 miles across from where we stood. I've
heard this phenomenon twice in Alaska. Once in that location. Once on
the outer shore of Yakutat.
Bernie Krause
>Saw a story at Wired News about tectonic-y natural sounds:
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