An assortment of technicalia concerning the sounds of Earth.

A handy toolkit

Obtaining seismic data (an abbreviated HOWTO):

1. Review seismic event catalog
2. Review IRIS data holdings by station
3. Place breq_fast request
4. Check order status
5. Download order

Handy calculators

Notes and emerging documentation

• Deep Earth Dome ~ a sound installation of the seismic sounds of Earth
• Turning Earth Noise into Sound: Notes for a Future "How-to" ~ my jottings, slowly taking shape
• Trucks in Turkmenistan? Forensic Seismology Brings Sound Art Down to Earth (060817) ~ my reflections on misidentifying some mysterious "crustal chirps" from Turkmenistan
• Sound file protocols (notes to self)
• Determining speaker placement in a spherical model space
• Modeling a spherical space using "N+2" loudspeaker geometry

Useful references

(For links to Earth sounds and sound art, see my Links of Note.)

• Auditory Seismology ~ Dr. Florian Dombois's explorations with audification of seismic data
• Dome Calculator (Desert Domes) ~ a handy online JavaScript calculator for designing geodesic domes
• The Great Sumatra earthquake of December 2004 ~ geophysical synopsis of this catastrophic event
• IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) ~ "a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data"
• "Model-Size to Full-Size Scaling" by Barney E. Klamecki ~ notes for a mechanical engineering class; applicable to acoustic Earth time- and space-scaling issues.
• Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory Catalog of Nuclear Explosions
• Project IDA ~ the global broadband seismic network
• SAC (Seismic Analysis Code) ~ a big, powerful, and cumbersome program designed for the study of timeseries data, like seismograms. Although I don't use SAC in my earth sound work, many of the data files I work with arrive in SAC format.
• Yucca Valley at the Nevada Test Site ~ (what's left of it, that is, after more than a half-century of nuclear explosions)