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Hollister, CA, USA (seismic station SAO)

This near-real-time audio stream originates from a seismometer at Hollister, CA, USA (BK station SAO). The low-frequency sounds of the solid Earth have been sped up by a factor of 1,800× to make them audible. As a result, frequencies have been transposed upward about 11 octaves. Each successive audio program (separated by a brief pause) compresses the last 168 hours into about 6 minutes (exactly 05:36) of listening time.

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Technical details:

Status :   (Operating normally)
Manual flags : (none)
Station : SAO (net: BK) at Hollister, CA, USA
Sensor : Streckeisen STS-1/E300 VBB Feedback Seismometer
Recorder : Quanterra Q330HR-GFE @ 40 Hz
Pod : ms-osiris@x.x.161.84 | macOS 12.6.3 | psm v. 176
Last heard from pod : Thu Mar 28 11:21:01 UTC 2024 (about 5 minutes ago)
Speedup : ×1,800
Loop duration (real) : 168 hours
Loop duration (audio) : 05:36 (stereo)
Data channels : miniseed (BK.SAO.00.BHN BK.SAO.00.BHE)
Spectrogram type : raw data
Gain correction : 20 dB
SoX post-processing : highpass -2 90 highpass -2 90
compand 0.001,0.01 6:-80,-50,-40,-10,0,-3
Archives : 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017
Audio Stream : https://audibleearth.com/proxy/es16/stream (es16@8030)
Latest factoids : sao.5.factoids.txt