King 5 Seattle. “This was much bigger than the Beast quake in terms of the raw amplitude of shaking, and it went on for a whole lot longer, of course.”that the seismic event was to be expected, given that the energy from fans’ vibrations travels into and through the ground as sound waves, which can be picked up by sensitive seismometers. And as technology improves, more and more of these occurrences may be noticed in the future.
Tarje Nissen-Meyer, a geophysicist at the University of Oxford, even said that you might be able to look at the data and tell different concerts apart. “Much like we can deduce different earthquake types,” he said, “one could perhaps discern a Taylor Swift gig from a Bad Religion one, some day. It all depends on the amount of data recorded and processed.”that she’s trying to get tickets to Beyoncé’s upcoming Lumen Field concert, to compare the event to Swift’s—“for science.