TITLE:
A Study on the Correlation of Physiological and Psychological Health Hazards in Human Habitats with Seismicity, Mountain Air Turbulence and Environmental Infrasound
AUTHORS:
R. Gopalaswami
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Infrasound, 34° North Parallel, Geoacoustic Hot Spots, Hearing Disabilities, Noise Cancellation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Earthquake Research,
Vol.7 No.2,
March
27,
2018
ABSTRACT:
A statistical correlation study on the basis of published data has been performed
in order to find whether an abnormal degree of human physiological
ailments and a psychology of sustained violent reactions in highly populated
habitats are correlated with environmental infrasound emissions related to
seismic activity and sustained by mountain air turbulence. The study focus is
on Latitude 34° North coinciding with boundaries of colliding Tectonic Plates
in three continents. Earthquakes, rock fractures and landslides in these regions
are creating geoacoustic activity in the form of hotspots of infrasound
emissions. Sources of infrasound have been located by global infrasound
monitoring stations. One single earthquake can cause multiple infrasound
sources in a region. Low frequency “infrasound” creates an environment of
unseen and inaudible energies that are hazardous to the local population. In
one region on 34°N latitude the percentage of population with hearing disabilities
increases or decreases almost directly proportional to frequency of
earthquakes. In this region, the casualties due to social disorder and violence
increased as the frequency of earthquake events increased and decreased as this
frequency decreased. Comprehensive public health studies bring out that a sizable
percentage of the regional population remain in a constant state of irritation,
annoyance and anger; and suffer many other psychosomatic ailments corresponding
to exposure to infrasound in 5 - 16 Hz frequencies and 120 - 140 dB
amplitude. A new natural hazard inimical to life on planet earth has thus been
identified. The time has arrived for public health authorities to locally pinpoint
infrasound hotspots by scientific measurements. Thereafter new technologies
can be developed to actively, and passively, mitigate/cancel these hazardous environmental emissions of infrasound and a Public Health Security
Systems put in place as sustainable solutions for a healthy, livable habitat.