What Does the Japan Earthquake Sound Like?

Micah Frank a sound programmer from Brooklyn created this sonic representation of the Japanese earthquake on March 11, 2011 using Tectonic. It's pretty eerie.

Earthquakes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011 by Micah Frank
Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma processes earthquake data that is translated into sound synthesis parameters. A USGS XML feed is parsed into numerous fields including magnitude, elevation, time of day and geographical coordinates. These data are mapped to synthetic spectrums and processed by granular, aggregate and subtractive synthesis.