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Subject: Re: Earth Hum
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:12:18 -0500
From: Wild Sanctuary <>

> 
> 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.

Could these be associated with Glacier Movement?

Walt




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