They sang, they danced – and the earth shook. This is roughly how a Taylor Swift concert that took place last weekend in Seattle, USA, can be described.
A nearby seismometer was able to accurately record the dancing fans, the earthquake had a magnitude of 2.3. The scientists called it the “Swift Quake” in an interview with the “New York Times”.
“It was certainly the biggest concert in a long time,” said seismologist Mouse Reusch of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. “We’re talking about 70,000 people here.”
So it wasn’t just the dancing fans, but also the bass from the sound system that made the earth tremble. Amazingly, the seismologists were even able to use the evaluated data to say what music was being played.
On the two evenings, an “almost identical pattern was recorded on the seismometer,” explained Reusch. This “suggests that the sets were almost identical”.
According to The New York Times, it featured hits like “Anti-Hero,” “Bad Blood,” “Love Story,” and – appropriately – “Shake It Off.”
However, Reusch did not publish her data entirely altruistically. In the interview, she also revealed: “Maybe there are some young Swifties out there who will one day become seismologists or geoscientists. That would be a real happy ending.”
In the summer of 2024, Taylor Swift will also come to Germany. Finally, as many fans find. Three concerts alone will take place in Gelsenkirchen, others in Hamburg and Munich.
The tickets were sold out online within minutes, and the servers in neighboring France even collapsed. On ticket exchanges, the tickets are now traded for a multiple of the purchase price.
Quelle: “The New York Times”
