Scottish fans of megastar Taylor Swift caused the ground to shake during the American singer’s concerts at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield stadium last weekend, the British earthquake monitoring agency (BGS) reported on Thursday.
Two monitoring stations around the city recorded seismic activity Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening, up to six kilometers around the stadium where the pop star was performing, produced by a mix of dancing at the same time and power of the stadium sound system.
200,000 fans attended these monumental shows lasting around three hours, which inaugurated Taylor Swift’s concert series in the United Kingdom before London, Cardiff or Liverpool.
The British Geological Survey even produced a chart showing that it was the songs “Ready For It?”, “Cruel Summer” and “Champagne Problems” that generated the greatest enthusiasm from fans each time. At the peak of the concert, they transmitted “80 kW of power, the equivalent of around 6,000 car batteries,” he estimated.
These “induced” earthquakes, which do not have a natural origin, “were detected by sensitive scientific instruments designed to identify the tiniest seismic activity (…) but it is unlikely that the vibrations generated by the concert were felt by anyone other than those nearby immediate”however, underlined the institute.
Last July, Taylor Swift’s concert in Seattle, United States, had already generated seismic activity of magnitude 2.3, an announcement that some experts subsequently described as exaggerated.
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