Sound Gallery - Avalanche

An avalanche crashes down the side of Mt. Sinopah in Grand Teton National Park, captured by a park webcam.

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• Avalanche

  
  

  Sound recording of avalanche, Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska.

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  Audio Transcript

  Booming and banging sounds of an avalanche.

Spectrogram of an avalanche. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right.

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