Russian fireball largest ever detected by CTBTO’s infrasound sensors
February 21, 2013
Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia’s Ural mountains last week were the largest ever recorded by the CTBTO’s International Monitoring System.
Infrasound is low frequency sound with a range of less than 10 Hz.
The blast was detected by 17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO’s network, which tracks atomic blasts across the planet. The furthest station to record the sub-audible sound was 15,000km away in Antarctica.
— CTBTO
Video Source: CTBTO
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Russian fireball largest ever detected by CTBTO's infrasound sensors
Comments (3)
by SmartAndSober
It seems, to me, that we should build more detectors in the world’s oceans.
Almost 70% of the world’s surace area is unoccupied, which is wasteful.
But if we perform any major colonization, it would be considered outrageous (the potential destruction to the environment is great).
We need to develop and build small, compact detector-complexies (that combines as many types of detectors as possible – weather, seismic, ocean-current, biology(migration of fishes)), geology, astronomy and more – and equipped with their own supercomputers and energy generators).
Such detector-complexies could bring great benefit to the welfare of planet Earth.
by Bri
You would be surprised to know how many detectors are out there. They even have global lightning detectors.
by SmartAndSober
I am sure that the world can have much more.
After the Singularity, the Planetary Being (or perhaps multiple of them) will consider this rudimentary nervous system as both insufficient and inefficient and will refine it much further.