Archive for July 20th, 2013

Some Volcanoes ‘Scream’ at Ever Higher Pitches Until They Blow Their Tops

It is not unusual for swarms of small earthquakes to precede a volcanic eruption. They can reach a point of such rapid succession that they create a signal called harmonic tremor that resembles sound made by various types of musical instruments, though at frequencies much lower than humans can hear. A new analysis of an […]