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Title:
SIBERIAN INSTITUTE'S INFRASONIC
MEASURING STATION
Primary source:
Sovetskaya Estoniya,
August 14, 1979, No. 186 (10884),
p. 3, cols. 1-2
Entire text:
Irkutsk -- The sound of
ocean surf can be heard in Siberia, at
the center of the Asian continent.
This posed no difficulty for TASS'
Irkutsk correspondent A. Gayday.
In
the taiga clearing of Badara, where
he was, scientists of the Institute of
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Hamm Magnetism, the Ionosphere and
Radiowave Propagation of the USSR
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Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch
have set up an original infrasonic
measuring station.
Inside the small station one hears
the steady hum of electric motors and
the measured scratching of recording
instruments. Low-frequency sound
waves imperceptible to human hearing
are being recorded on tape. Scientists
will find out later where the waves
came from, when they 'show' this
recording to a computer. These waves
are emitted by oceans and seas, active
volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes,
and celestial bodies falling to the
earth.
Infrasonic vibrations possess
the surprising property of not damping
for a long time. They can even circle
the globe several times
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"Receiving and recording sounds,
inaudible to humans, from the distant
Atlantic or Pacific oceans is not a
goal in itself for us, " says Ye.
Ponomarev, head of the high-latitud
geophysical research laboratory.
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other natural phenomena are capable of
affecting the upper atmosphere, its
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Title:
GEOPHYSICIST MEASURES SOIL GAS
ANOMALIES TO PREDICT EARTHQUAKES
Primary source:
Sovetskaya Estoniya,
August 14, 1979, No. 186 (10884)
p. 3, cols. 2-3
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Abstract:
The brief article reports
that geophysicist Yu. Ryaboshtan of
Donetsk has developed a method for
predicting the approximate time,
force and place of an earthquake by
measuring changes in the gas content
of the earth's soil layer. The method
involves the use of extrasensitive
instruments, which Ryaboshtan designed
for coal mining work, to measure small
doses of gases that are released in
the soil when a focus of stress occurs
in the earth's depths. By correlating
measurements made over several years
with occurrences of earthquakes,
Ryaboshtan discovered a pattern that
reportedly has enabled him to forecast
the time of major earthquakes to within
one or two days, and up to three weeks
in advance. It is noted that the
method's practicality is being studied
by large scientific groups.
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Author:
Borovitskiy,. V.
Title:
NEW AVIATION INSTRUMENT
MEASURES STRUCTURAL FATIGUE
Primary source:
Sovetskaya Latviya,
August 17, 1979, No. 188 (11091),
p. 4, col. 1
Entire text: Material fatigue is a
dangerous physical phenomenon which
is accompanied by an accumulation in
parts of small faults that are
invisible to the unaided eye, and it
can lead to accidents with machine
tools, motor vehicles
airplanes ...
for diagnosing the imnondin~ a ..
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