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- COVID19 Lockdown and the resulting decrease in human activities had an impact on the earth's seismic vibrations. In all the cities (Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and Yellowknife), the seismic vibrations decreased between 14% – 44%. In the 3 densely packed cities of the population over 1 million -Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary, the seismic vibrations dropped by over 30%. The source of data was the seismic stations of the Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN).
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. By then it had spread to at least 110 countries. The announcement made by WHO had a cascading effect. Cities, territories, and countries around the world ended up declaring states of emergency. Schools, universities, malls, non-essential services, government, and private offices were closed putting cities under siege. Canada was no exception. All Canadian provinces and territories — implemented some public or health emergency measures to check the spread of COVID-19.
This was the best time to analyze the impact of the reduction in human activities brought by COVID19 lockdown on the seismic vibration of the Earth.
The ground vibrations sampling rate of many seismic stations is over 100 readings a second. I ended up with a dataset of over 10 billion values from 6 seismic stations across Canada which I had to analyze using #python to measure the changes.
View the graphs of changes in Seismic Vibrations at https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/07/25/the-silence-of-canadian-cities-and-oceans-the-impact-of-covid19-lockdown/
This was the best time to analyze the impact of the reduction in human activities brought by COVID19 lockdown on the seismic vibration of the Earth.
The ground vibrations sampling rate of many seismic stations is over 100 readings a second. I ended up with a dataset of over 10 billion values from 6 seismic stations across Canada which I had to analyze using #python to measure the changes.
View the graphs of changes in Seismic Vibrations at https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/07/25/the-silence-of-canadian-cities-and-oceans-the-impact-of-covid19-lockdown/
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