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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-299-2021
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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
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02 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 02 Feb 2021

Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)

Andrea Cannata, Flavio Cannavò, Giuseppe Di Grazia, Marco Aliotta, Carmelo Cassisi, Raphael S. M. De Plaen, Stefano Gresta, Thomas Lecocq, Placido Montalto, and Mariangela Sciotto

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries put in place social interventions, aimed at restricting human mobility, which caused a decrease in the seismic noise, generated by human activities and called anthropogenic seismic noise. In densely populated eastern Sicily, we observed a decrease in the seismic noise amplitude reaching 50 %. We found similarities between the temporal patterns of seismic noise and human mobility, as quantified by mobile-phone-derived data and ship traffic data.
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