Russian Fireball Largest Ever Detected by CTBTO's Infrasound Sensors
Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over
Russia's
Ural mountains last week were the largest ever recorded by the
CTBTO's
International Monitoring System. Infrasound is low frequency sound with a range of less than 10 Hz. The blast was detected by 20 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network, which tracks atomic blasts across the planet.
Listen to the audio files of the infrasound recording after it has been filtered and the signal accelerated.
Read more:
http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/press-releases/
2013/russian-fireball-largest-ever-detected-by-ctbtos-infrasound-sensors/
The recording was sped up 135 times, in reality it lasted 25 minutes! The sound files were produced by CTBTO's infrasound guru Pierrick Mialle. For those interested in getting really techie, Pierrick s
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