our neighborhood and park have been littered with hundreds of small, rugged orange boxes that say DO NOT TOUCH on them. It turns out they’re seismic microphones, and they’re going to be artificially inducing small earthquakes in the park to measure the local ground response.
@0xabad1dea George Monbiot recently wrote that he's been getting in touch with seismologists to actually solve a very big problem in agriculture efficiency - soil quality, depth etc.
Maybe it's something like that?
@vriesk it seems they’re scouting for potential geothermal locations