Glacial earthquake-generating iceberg calving in a narwhal summering ground : The loudest underwater sound in the Arctic?

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Main Authors: Podolskiy, Evgeny A., Murai, Yoshio, Kanna, Naoya, Sugiyama, Shin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Acoustical Society of America
• Subjects: 450; Arctic; Bowdoin; greenlandic; Iceberg*; narwhal*; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/86725; https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009166

Measurements of underwater sound are still scarce in the rapidly changing Arctic. Tele-seismically detectable glacial earthquakes caused by iceberg calving have been known for nearly two decades but their underwater sound levels remain undocumented. Here, we present near-source underwater sound reco...