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nice paper on this:

Blue Note: How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability and Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems [pdf] https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/bolton-blue-note-IEEESSP-...

After this incident, our property owner installed "silencers" on the fire extinguisher system in the data center we rent.

This issue, according to what I have heard, had to do with the fire suppression system going off by misstake and the explosion that happened when the gas was going to be released caused the vibrations.