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arXiv:physics/0509103physics.geo-ph

Hurricanes and Earth Hum

Randall D. Peters

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Abstract

A modernized conventional pendulum has been used to show that hurricanes Katrina and Ophelia excited eigenmode oscillations of the Earth as well as microseisms.

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20 pages, 11 figures
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physics.geo-phGeophysics physics.ao-phAtmospheric and Oceanic Physics

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