Taylor Swift fans cause 2.3 magnitude earthquake during her Eras Tour concert in Seattle

It has been compared to the legendary “Beast Quake” of 2011.

The groundbreaking phenomenon occurred over the weekend as Taylor Swift performed sold-out back-to-back shows in Seattle. (Source: Taylor Swift/ Instagram)

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert at Lumen Field, Seattle broke a record of enormous proportions as enthusiastic Swifties, as her devoted fans are called, caused seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to a CNN report.

The groundbreaking phenomenon occurred over the weekend as Swift performed sold-out back-to-back shows to a whopping audience of 1,44,000 fans. It has been compared to the legendary “Beast Quake” of 2011. The “Beast Quake” occurred when fans of American football team Seattle Seahawks erupted after an impressive touchdown by running back Marshawn Lynch. The rapturous celebration was detected on the same local seismometer as the Swift concert, seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told CNN.

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Caplan-Auerbach, who works as a geology professor at Western Washington University, was quoted as saying, “I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals.” She added that if she overlays them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.

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She said the main difference between the July 22 and July 23 shows makes up roughly 26 minutes. “I asked around and found out the Sunday show was delayed by about half an hour, so that adds up,” Caplan-Auerbach said to CNN.

While the magnitude difference between “Beast Quake” and “Swift Quake” is only 0.3, Caplan-Auerbach said the Swifties beat the Seahawk fans as the shaking was twice as strong.

“The primary difference is the duration of shaking,” Caplan-Auerbach said. “Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behaviour. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it,” she told CNN.

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