Loma Prieta Earthquake Sonifications
The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake killed 63 people and caused billions of dollars in damage in northern California on October 17, 1989. I've sonified the data recorded by 70 USGS seismographs during that earthquake. This 4 minute Bandcamp album includes 10 short examples. Details on how I did it are in the Bandcamp album. Every track sounds different because each seismograph captured the resonances of the structures they were in along with the ground shaking. Sometimes the seismic waves sound a lot like water waves. Sometimes I seem to hear human voices or acoustic instruments in them, especially in the Seismic Mix tracks. I'm working on a piece of music where all of the sounds are derived from the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Free to listen to online at Loma Prieta Earthquake Sonification Examples