A Study on the Correlation of Physiological and Psychological Health Hazards in Human Habitats with Seismicity, Mountain Air Turbulence and Environmental Infrasound

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 *(Retired) formerly CMD,

Environmental Infrasound and Its Impact on Public Health in the Kashmir Region

“…Hundreds of medical investigations worldwide bring out that exposure to infrasound at specific frequencies and amplitudes damage human metabolism and lead to a variety of serious psychological ailments; and (at higher infrasound amplitudes) physiological ailments as well like hearing disabilities. [3] revealed that the centuries of unresolved ethnic conflict existed not only in the Kashmir region at 34 degrees north latitude, but indeed over 10,000 kilometers of the Asian continent around this very same latitude along the boundaries of colliding tectonic plates. The one common geophysical feature was that the entire region along this latitude was highly seismic.…”