Taylor Swift's Era's Tour has broken huge records in ticket sales , but her concerts in Edinburgh, Scotland, just tipped another scale — the seismic scale. Fans at her concerts last weekend danced so hard they generated seismic activity that was felt nearly four miles away from the Murrayfield Stadium, according to the British Geological Survey. BGS says three songs consistently generated the most seismic activity during each of the three Edinburgh shows: ".
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Ready For It?" starts with a loud, blown out bass beat and is 160 beats per minute, making it the perfect song for triggering seismic shakes, BGS said. The crowd transmitted about 80 kilowatts of power, or about the amount of power created by 10 to 16 car batteries, according to BGS. The Friday, June 7 concert showed the most seismic activity, with the ground showing 23.
4 nanometers of movement, BGS found. Taylor Swift performs at Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium on June 7, 2024, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gareth Cattermole/TAS24 While the crowd shook the Earth enough for it to register at BGS' monitoring stations miles from the venue, people in the immediate vicinity of the stadium were likely the only ones to feel the Earth shaking.
This is not the first time a crowd has created a quake — and Swifties are usually the culprits. During a 2011 NFL playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints at what was then called Qwest Field in Seattle,.