Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-713-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-713-2021
Research article
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25 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 25 Mar 2021

Seismic signature of the COVID-19 lockdown at the city scale: a case study with low-cost seismometers in the city of Querétaro, Mexico

Raphael S. M. De Plaen, Víctor Hugo Márquez-Ramírez, Xyoli Pérez-Campos, F. Ramón Zuñiga, Quetzalcoatl Rodríguez-Pérez, Juan Martín Gómez González, and Lucia Capra

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AM Raspberry Shake Raspberry Shake Community, OSOP, S.A., and Gempa GmbH https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/AM

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COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in countries with a dominant informal economy have been a greater challenge than in other places. This motivated the monitoring of the mobility of populations with seismic noise throughout the various phases of lockdown and in the city of Querétaro (central Mexico). Our results emphasize the benefit of densifying urban seismic networks, even with low-cost instruments, to observe variations in mobility at the city scale over exclusively relying on mobile technology.