Seismologists detect global 'Love Vibe'

WASHINGTON: Seismologists have detected a subtle and mysterious global hum, known as "Love waves", by studying records from some of the Earth's most uninteresting seismic stations.

According to a report in Discovery News, the newfound vibration is made of two-minute to five-minute, side-to-side surface seismic waves.

They are named for the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love, who created the mathematical model of such waves in 1911.

The Love wave is a mode that essentially torques the Earth's north and south hemispheres against each other.

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The Economic Times

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