对于一个地震学家而言,有一点非常重要,即能否将灾难性地震的信息有效地传达给那些可能不懂地震学术语和方法的人们。到目前为止,最常用的方法是以类似于“快照”的静态图来表达地震数据。单凭这些静态图像,难以区分地震所产生震波的基本特征,如纵波、横波、表面波等。其他一些更为深奥的内容,如频率、衰减、地震触发现象等,则更加难以解释。对于普通大众,例如没有提前接受过基础地震学教育的高中生而言,更是如此。近来,动画和可视化技术被越来越多地用于表达地震信息和地震波在地球中的传播过程。但是,这些动画并没有利用人们在听力方面的能力,比如依据声音对振幅、频率等的感知。现在,美国佐治亚理工学院的科学家们在这方面进行了尝试。 It is very important for a seismologist to effectively communicate disastrous earthquakes to those who may not understand seismology terms and methods. So far, the most common method is to express seismic data in a static image similar to “snapshot ”. Based solely on these still images, it is difficult to distinguish the basic characteristics of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, such as longitudinal waves, transverse waves, surface waves and the like. Other more esoteric content, such as frequency, attenuation, earthquake triggering, etc., is more difficult to explain. This is even more so for the general public, such as high school students who have not received basic seismological education in advance. More recently, animation and visualization techniques have been used to express the propagation of seismic information and seismic waves in the Earth. However, these animations do not take advantage of people’s ability to listen, such as perception of amplitude, frequency, etc., based on sound. Now, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States have tried this.