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  Earthquake  
 

earthquake spectrogramTypically, an earthquake produces a triangular-shaped signal on a spectrogram, (with the highest acoustic energy yellows and reds), occurring in the 5 to 30 Hz frequency range.

 

Click here (285 kb, 10x) to hear the sound produced by this earthquake. (Note: the bird like sounds that you hear in the background are actually humpback calls at ten times their normal speed!)