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by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
This report from Yahoo! discusses work being done by the Royal Observatory of Belgium and the British Geological Survey that shows that people staying at home has made some measurable differences.
The work shows that low frequency noise created by humans, picked up by a network of seismometers, has decreased by 33%. The reduction in low frequency vibrations was confirmed by the British Geological Survey.
This new quiet may be one tiny silver lining in the scourge that is the COVID-19 pandemic.
