Continue tour through eras Taylor Swift, the first in over five years, to mark the 17th anniversary of his career. She is one of the most popular pop singers in the world: a few days ago she was really there. first female to reach the Top 10 Albums American. But the surprises don’t end there. Among the latest news about his live performances is the one regarding some stages of his tour: some concerts, in fact, would cause seismic activity equal to an earthquake of magnitude 2.3 on the Richter scale.
It happened in Seattlein Washington state, during concerts on July 22 and 23 in Lumen Field: seismometers recorded vibrations of such intensity that they can be compared with a small earthquake. The phenomenon is named swift Earthquake, as explained by seismologist Jackie Kaplan-Auerbach, who teaches geology at Western Washington University. According to cnnthe scientist compared the phenomenon with Beast Earthquakealso recorded in Seattle in 2011 during a game by the Seahawks, an American football team, although in the case of Taylor Swift concerts, probably due to the sound and 70 thousand fans who gathered together to listen to the singer live, the jolts were stronger.
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This is not a real earthquake, as he later clarified in a subsequent interview on The newspaper “New York Times Kaplan-Auerbach, who made it clear that seismometers detect “everything that shakes the earth”, including cars or other vehicles such as, for example, trains. Plus, Taylor Swift doesn’t seem to be the only artist capable of creating that effect: fans Weekendduring his performance on August 25, 2022 at the same location, Seattle’s Lumen Field, elicited such a reaction.