Sumatra-Andaman EQ MP3

[David]

They finally released the EQ audio file (in MP3 format).

There were various hydroacoustic sensors throughout the Indian Ocean that picked up these T-waves (sound waves) that followed the initial seismic waves (P-waves & S-waves).

In effect, you're hearing the 750-mile length of fault "unzip" from south to north at almost 6,000 miles per hour. The rupture propagated along the major plate boundary in the Sunda Trench in two distinct phases.

Load this in Winamp & then turn up the volume. It is EERIE.

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news/20...es/tsun_eq.mp3