When Taylor Swift took the stage at Seattle’s Lumen Field this past weekend, the Earth moved. Literally.
Jackie Caplan-Auberbach, a professor in the geology department at the University of Western Washington, pulled the data, which showed the pop star’s Eras Tour concert caused twice as much shaking as the infamous “Beast Quake” of 2011 — when Marshawn Lynch scored a touchdown for the Seattle Seahawks, and secured the NFL team a victory in a wild card playoff game.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) calculated Seattle fans cheering for the touchdown made the Earth shake with the equivalent of a 2.0 magnitude earthquake.
“If that was a two, this would’ve been a 2.3.,” Caplan-Auberbach told CBC News.
She noted that it’s not
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