Current:Home > ContactTaylor Swift fans danced so hard during her concerts they created seismic activity in Edinburgh, Scotland -MarketStream
Taylor Swift fans danced so hard during her concerts they created seismic activity in Edinburgh, Scotland
View
Date:2025-04-19 12:49:38
Taylor Swift's Era's Tour has broken huge records in ticket sales, but her concerts in Edinburgh, Scotland, just tipped another scale — the seismic scale. Fans at her concerts last weekend danced so hard they generated seismic activity that was felt nearly four miles away from the Murrayfield Stadium, according to the British Geological Survey.
BGS says three songs consistently generated the most seismic activity during each of the three Edinburgh shows: "…Ready For It?" "Cruel Summer" and "champagne problems."
"…Ready For It?" starts with a loud, blown out bass beat and is 160 beats per minute, making it the perfect song for triggering seismic shakes, BGS said. The crowd transmitted about 80 kilowatts of power, or about the amount of power created by 10 to 16 car batteries, according to BGS.
The Friday, June 7 concert showed the most seismic activity, with the ground showing 23.4 nanometers of movement, BGS found.
While the crowd shook the Earth enough for it to register at BGS' monitoring stations miles from the venue, people in the immediate vicinity of the stadium were likely the only ones to feel the Earth shaking.
This is not the first time a crowd has created a quake — and Swifties are usually the culprits.
During a 2011 NFL playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints at what was then called Qwest Field in Seattle, Marshawn Lynch made a play that drove the crowd so wild they caused shaking that registered on a seismometer.
Scientists were interested in the stadium shake, which earned Lynch a new nickname: "Beast Quake." But last July, Swift proved it's not just football fans who can create tremors in Seattle. During her Eras Tour concert at the venue, a quake registered on the same seismometer.
"The actual amount that the ground shook at its strongest was about twice as big during what I refer to as the Beast Quake (Taylor's Version)," Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geology professor at Western Washington University, told CBS News at the time. "It also, of course, lasted for hours. The original Beast Quake was a celebration on the part of some very excited fans that lasted maybe 30 seconds."
When Swift took her tour to Los Angeles' SoFi stadium in August, a California Institute of Technology research team recorded the vibrations created by the 70,000 fans in the stands.
Motion sensors near and in the stadium as well as seismic stations in the region recorded vibrations during 43 out of her 45 songs. "You Belong with Me" had the biggest local magnitude, registering at 0.849.
- In:
- Taylor Swift
- Scotland
Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," CBS News' streaming show that focuses on good news.
veryGood! (672)
Related
- Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall
- New Zealand leader plans to ban cellphone use in schools and end tobacco controls in first 100 days
- Activists on both sides of the debate press Massachusetts lawmakers on bills to tighten gun laws
- Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong
- South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
- Fake AI-generated woman on tech conference agenda leads Microsoft and Amazon execs to drop out
- Judge cites handwritten will and awards real estate to Aretha Franklin’s sons
- Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned
- Jorge Ramos reveals his final day with 'Noticiero Univision': 'It's been quite a ride'
- Niall Horan stunned by Super Save singer AZÁN on 'The Voice': 'She could really be a threat'
Ranking
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- The Excerpt podcast: Israel-Hamas truce extended through Wednesday
- Documents of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and lieutenant governor subpoenaed in lawsuit over bribery scheme
- Judge enters $120M order against former owner of failed Michigan dam
- Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
- Woman falls 48 feet to her death down well shaft hidden below floorboards in century-old South Carolina home
- Could selling Taylor Swift merchandise open you up to a trademark infringement lawsuit?
- Georgia governor names first woman as chief of staff as current officeholder exits for Georgia Power
Recommendation
NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores
Could selling Taylor Swift merchandise open you up to a trademark infringement lawsuit?
Toyota selling part of Denso stake to raise cash to develop electric vehicles
What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
Tiffany Haddish arrested on suspicion of DUI in Beverly Hills
Putin accuses the West of trying to ‘dismember and plunder’ Russia in a ranting speech
House begins latest effort to expel George Santos after damning ethics probe