“…Boginskaya and Kostylev ( 2022 ) in the article entitled “Change in the level of microseismic noise during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Russian Far East” have noticed a significant sharp decrease up to 30–50% in the daily background seismic noise during the period of the self-isolation. The pandemic’s restrictions on the operation of public institutions and the mobility of the population in large cities of the Russian Far East resulted in the improved quality of seismological observations.…”