The enthusiastic dancing by tens of thousands of Taylor Swift fans at her record-breaking concerts in Edinburgh was picked up by earthquake monitors. Nearly 73,000 Swifties attended each of three concerts at Murrayfield Stadium from Friday to Sunday and their rapturous reception for the star meant earthquake readings were detected up to 3.7 miles away.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) said fans on the first night of the UK leg of Swift’s mammoth international Eras tour generated the most seismic activity, with spikes caused by dancing particularly evident during her songs Cruel Summer, Ready For It? and Shake It Off. Seismic data from the first night of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour in Edinburgh (BGS/PA) The four-minute applause during Champagne Problems the same night also caused a spike on the monitors. A similar pattern occurred on all three nights, with Friday recording 23.
4 nanometres (nm) of movement compared to 22.8nm on Saturday and 23.3nm on Sunday.
The seismic activity from the concerts was detected at two monitoring stations, the furthest of which was 3.7 miles away at the BGS office in the Lyell Centre. Callum Harrison, BGS seismologist, said: “BGS is the national body responsible for recording earthquakes to inform the Government, public, industry and regulators, and allow for a greater understanding of earthquake risk and plan for future events.
“It’s amazing that we’ve been able to measure the reaction of thousands of concertgoers remotely through our.