Planetary Disequilibrium

Thomas Lecocq et al., “Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures,” Science 369, no. 6509 (2020): 1338–1343.

See J. Díaz, M. Ruiz, P.S. Sánchez-Pastor, et al., “Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city.” Scientific Reports 7, no. 15296 (2017).

See James N. Brune, Jack Oliver, “The seismic noise of the earth’s surface,” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 49, no. 4 (1959): 349–353.

See V. Caorsi, V. Guerra, R. Furtado, et al., “Anthropogenic substrate-borne vibrations impact anuran calling.” Scientific Reports 9, no. 19456 (2019).

S. Deng, S. Liu, X. Mo, L. Jiang, P. Bauer-Gottwein, “Polar drift in the 1990s explained by terrestrial water storage changes,” Geophysical Research Letters 48, no. 7 (2021): 1.

Teleseismic events are earthquakes and their vibratory effects registered at distances more than 1000 km from their origin. Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz, “The Earthquake of Tokio, April 18, 1889,” Nature 40, no. 1030 (1889): 294–295; Cargill G. Knott, “The Earthquake of Tokio, April 18, 1889,” Nature 41, no. 1046 (1889): 32–32. For an elaborate account of the historical development of modern seismology as a “citizen science” see Deborah Coen, The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Paul Emanuel Spieker, “Die Bauausführungen des Königlichen astrophysikalischen Observatoriums auf dem Telegraphenberge bei Potsdam,” Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 29, no. 1–3 (1879): 33–48; Spieker, “Die Königlichen Observatorien für Astrophysik, Meteorologie und Geodäsie auf dem Telegraphenberge bei Potsdam,” Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 46, no. 1–3, (1894): 1–16, 203–218, 343–370.

Charles Davison, “Dr. E. Von Rebeur-Paschwitz,” Nature 52, no. 1355 (1895): 600.

Seismology has a long tradition in Britain, where members of the Royal Society began early investigations already in the 1660s. First “networks” of instruments and a seismic bulletin were established in Scotland in the early 1840s. See Roger M. W. Musson, “A history of British seismology,” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 11, no. 3 (2013): 715–861.

Hermann Thiersch, “Worte des Gedächtnisses gesprochen an der Bahre Emil Wiecherts,” Pers 56,3 1, no. 16 (1928). Archiv der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.

See Wilhelm Röntgen, “On a New Kind of Rays,” Nature (January 23, 1896): 275; for transmissions of this trope in modern architecture see Beatriz Colomina, X-Ray Architecture (Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2019).

Emil Wiechert, “Entwurf einer Denkschrift über seismologische Beobachtungen in den deutschen Kolonien,” Gerlands Beiträge zur Geophysik. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Erdkunde, vol. Ergänzungsband II: Verhandlungen der vom 24. bis 28. Juli 1903 zu Strassburg abgehaltenen Zweiten Internationalen Seismologischen Konferenz, (1904): 313–318 (313). All translations are my own unless otherwise noted.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Imperial German colonies around 1900: Togoland (Togo), Kamerun (Cameroon), Deutsch-Ostafrika (German East Africa) {present-day regions of Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique}, Deutsch-Südwestafrika (German Southwest Africa) {part of present-day Namibia}, Deutsch-Neuguinea (German New Guinea) including Kaiser-Wilhelmsland {present-day Papua New Guinea}, Deutsch-Samoa (German Samoa) {present-day Samoa}. Deutsch-Kiautschou (Jiaozhou Bay concession), Chefoo, and Tsingtao were treaty ports, leased, as concessions, by the Qing Dynasty {all present-day China}. See Sebastian Conrad, German Colonialism: A Short History, trans. Sorcha O’Hagan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Wiechert, “Entwurf einer Denkschrift über seismologische Beobachtungen in den deutschen Kolonien” (1904): 316–317.

ARUP, “Refining design through virtual vibrations,” ➝.

Gavin J. Andrews, Joshua Evans, Seraphina McAlister, “‘Creating the right therapy vibe’: Relational performances in holistic medicine,” Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013): 99–109, 101.