vibrations

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All of these actions create small vibrations that travel through the ground.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

The retired nurse, who lives on Attleboro Lane, claimed vibrations caused by heavy machinery had damaged their property: "It's destroyed our home, I'm embarrassed about home, it's falling apart."

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The vibrations can feel so strange to first-timers that they forget to breathe, or maybe they haven’t eaten beforehand, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Their findings, published in Nature Communications, describe how they guided these minute vibrations to act in a coordinated, laser-like way.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

They can measure the frequency of notes, and like most measurements, these will be numbers, like "440 vibrations per second."

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones