Figure 9. Although no whales were seen around the ship while on site, whale songs were frequently observed on the seafloor seismometer. The largest-amplitude wavelets occur in wave packets of four, which repeat about every 30 s. It takes this long for the water multiples to die down to an acceptable level before the whale sings the next song.

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BROADBAND SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS AT THE HAWAII-2 OBSERVATORY DURING ODP LEG 200