Dec 8, 2019
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In 1998, scientists discovered that the planet is constantly making a sound according to geek.com. This was vindicating news for a very small minority of people throughout the world who were obsessed with a low hum that seemingly only they could hear.
The phenomena of Earth’s constant but quiet vibration is called simply “The Hum” for sufferers and conspiracy theorists. Reports of The Hum pop up from the 1970s all over the world, and occasionally enough people report it to cause a bit of a media stir. In the early 1990s, state-side it was the “Taos Hum” in New Mexico that became prominent followed later by the Kokomo, Indiana Hum. In 1994 it was the “Bristol Hum” in southwest England.
People who complain about hearing the hum describe it as truck motors running in the distance and usually hear the noise at night or in isolated locations. Some people even claim that the sound gives them nausea, headaches, and nosebleeds on top of being very, very unsettling. Before its existence could be proved most doctors and scientists wrote off people complaining of a constant low rumbling as victims of delusion or tinnitus (ringing of the ears).
It wasn’t until 1998 that seismologists discovered the Earth is giving off very slight vibrations all the time around the range of 10 millihertz. That’s frequency so low that it’s supposed to be out of the range of human hearing. That hasn’t stopped online communities of Hum sufferers from amassing at sites like TheHum.info where you can share your accounts of The Hum in The Hum Sufferers Database and put yourself on a world map.
After 1998, with the seismic cause isolated and the existence of an Earth Hum verified, the search for the cause of the phenomena began.
It wasn’t until 2008 that Black Forest Observatory in Germany took–with supporting data from seismologists in Japan and China–to mapping the patterns of vibrations and discovered the Earths oscillations move in rings and loops over the Earth’s surface. That pattern indicates a force that’s moving across the planet’s surface, not a force that’s pushing down on the planets surface.
By 2009, there were two main theories involving the planet’s oceans and The Hum. The dominant theory was that deep waves moving across the entire ocean would brush up against the natural geography of the sea floor and vibrate the planet. A seismic observatory called the USArray EarthScope furthered another theory by measuring the intensity of the hum with wave height: the collision of waves against each other and battering up against the coast of the Western United States and Europe.
The problem with both theories is that seismological data collected on The Hum produced outliers for each model. Sometimes it would be stronger than what a deep wave could produce or lighter than what would be made by mass wave collision.
Like the best parts of science, it turns out the answer was pretty simple: it’s both.
A paper called “How ocean waves rock the Earth: Two mechanisms explain microseisms with periods 3 to 300 s” published in February’s edition of Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. In it, French scientists from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique hypothesize that it’s actually both wave based phenomena working together, but it’s definitely the waves.
Knowing the cause of The Hum hasn’t yet helped people who are suffering the physical side effects of being super-people (seriously, we’re not supposed to be able to hear this thing), but at least one thing is now very clear: they were not crazy.
The Earth hums because of the oceans.
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