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Here are a few contemporary examples.

SOUND / MUSIC

The Music Of Earthquakes - Andy Michael 1997

Earthquake Quartet is a concept piece that attempts to describe the earthquake cycle where plate motions build up strain which is then suddenly released during earthquakes during its initial section. The latter part of the piece is based on the idea that society and culture, including music, takes place with the earthquakes as an often ignored backdrop although the geologic processes are an instrinsic part of our existence and ignoring them can have its consequences.

INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE / SCULPTURE

Mori - Ken Goldberg 1999

Mori was the first example of earthquake art that used the internet to engage with the earth as a living medium. Seismic activity from the Hayward Fault in California were detected by a seismograph, converted to digital signals, and transmitted continuously via the Internet to the installation

Seismonitor - D.V.Rogers 2002

An earthquake shake table interfaced and triggered by globally reported seismic data. A telematic artwork mapping the earth’s breathing terrain of moving tectonics and global digital information networks.

 

ear(th) - Steve Roden 2004

80 robots attached to 80 glockenspiel bars were mounted on the roof of a wooden structure. A bunch of basic stamps translated earthquake data from a visual interferogram into code that would determine which notes were struck and in what sequence the robots played them.

Ballet Mori - Ken Goldberg 2006

San Francisco Ballet Principal Dancer, Muriel Maffre responded to a musical composition modulated live by the unpredictable fluctuations of the Earth’s movement as measured in real time by a UC Berkeley seismometer located on the Hayward Fault.

INCIDENTAL EARTHQUAKE ART

Earthquake Rose - 2001

A sand tracing pendulum, located inside a shop near Olympia Washington was moved by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. The tracings the pendulum made resulted in a rose like pattern being created in the sand.