“…Auditory display of seismic data was first explored during the Cold War, when the ability to distinguish underground nuclear tests from natural earthquakes acquired a political relevance [Speeth, 1961;Frantti and Leverault, 1965;Volmar , 2013]. Audification was eventually discarded, in this context, in favour of seismic-array methods [Volmar , 2013]; in recent years, however, it has been revived by seismologists, mostly for purposes of teaching and dissemination [e.g. Dombois and Eckel , 2011;Kilb et al, 2012;Peng et al, 2012;Holtzman et al, 2014;Tang, 2014].…”