An earthquake detector called the seismometer detected a 2.3 earthquake, and it happened to be during Taylor Swift’s era tour in Seattle just outside Lumen Field, while she was singing “Shake It Off”. Turns out, it wasn’t an earthquake at all, but as it was called, a “Swift-Quake”.
The “Swift-Quake” was indeed made by Swifties. The jumping of every single individual all added up to a literal earthquake! This “Swift-Quake” has been compared to the 2011 “Beast-Quake”, which has similar context, except for this mini earthquake, it was because of Marshawn Lynch’s amazing 67 yard winning touch-down between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks.
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geology professor at Western Washington University said that she “grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,”
“If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.”
While these two events had similar happenings, the image above shows that the Swift-Quake shook more than TWICE as hard as the Beast-Quake, and the magnitude was 0.3 greater than the quake in 2011.
“It’s certainly the biggest concert we’ve had in a while,” said Mouse Reusch, a seismologist at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which monitors earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest. “We’re talking about 70,000 people and all the music and paraphernalia associated with the concert.”
Scientists and seismologists still don’t know what completely caused the Swift-Quake, maybe it was the combination of the loudspeakers, the screaming, shouting and cheering of the Swifties and of course, mostly the jumping during “Shake It Off.” All being said, according to CBS News, several Swifties have been sending Taylor Swift videos to Caplan-Auerbach, giving her valuable content that could be used as a part of her research.
Yet to be a Swiftie, Caplan-Auerbach listens to song after song of Taylor Swift, and soon, she might get to the bottom of the Swift-Quake.
The “Swift-Quake” was indeed made by Swifties. The jumping of every single individual all added up to a literal earthquake! This “Swift-Quake” has been compared to the 2011 “Beast-Quake”, which has similar context, except for this mini earthquake, it was because of Marshawn Lynch’s amazing 67 yard winning touch-down between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks.
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geology professor at Western Washington University said that she “grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,”
“If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.”
While these two events had similar happenings, the image above shows that the Swift-Quake shook more than TWICE as hard as the Beast-Quake, and the magnitude was 0.3 greater than the quake in 2011.
“It’s certainly the biggest concert we’ve had in a while,” said Mouse Reusch, a seismologist at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which monitors earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest. “We’re talking about 70,000 people and all the music and paraphernalia associated with the concert.”
Scientists and seismologists still don’t know what completely caused the Swift-Quake, maybe it was the combination of the loudspeakers, the screaming, shouting and cheering of the Swifties and of course, mostly the jumping during “Shake It Off.” All being said, according to CBS News, several Swifties have been sending Taylor Swift videos to Caplan-Auerbach, giving her valuable content that could be used as a part of her research.
Yet to be a Swiftie, Caplan-Auerbach listens to song after song of Taylor Swift, and soon, she might get to the bottom of the Swift-Quake.
