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Subject: Re: Earth Hum
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:06:21 -0800
Difficult to study for several reasons, Rich. Combined reasons are 
that the sound occurs intermittently and one has to be present and 
have technology capable of capturing the signature the moment it 
occurs. I tried to get it with a combo hydrophone and TCD D-10DAT Pro 
I knew was capable of recording infrasound, but didn't get to it fast 
enough. By the time the set up was running, it was too late - the 
sound had stopped.

Bernie

>Sounds like what I previously described as a Star Ship engaging the
>warp drive.  I tried to inquire and search for different types of
>infrasound footprints to help me understand but there is not much I
>could find out there that is public and that I can compare files to.
>
>Rich
>
>--- In  Wild Sanctuary <>
>wrote:
>>  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:
>>  >
>>  >http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,66495,00.html
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >--greg
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>>  >
>>  >"Microphones are not ears,
>>  >Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>  >A listening room is not nature."
>>  >Klas Strandberg
>>  >Yahoo! Groups Links
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>>  --
>>  Wild Sanctuary
>>  P. O. Box 536
>>  Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>>  t. 707-996-6677
>>  f. 707-996-0280
>>  http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Wild Sanctuary
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
t. 707-996-6677
f. 707-996-0280
http://www.wildsanctuary.com


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