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[-] Bumblebb@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

That's not uncommon or unexpected.

Many decades ago I worked at the sierra natural history museum in california. It on a college campus and it has a Richter scale within the confines of the museum

Classes more or less released for lunch at the same time every day past a certain point due to teachers union agreements. The Richter scale would always register a seismic event just from students migrating from the classrooms to the various food venues and seating areas. We had to make a note on the printout (yes I'm that old)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's really interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[-] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

I don't want this community to have celebrity news in it

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

It's science news that happens to involve a celebrity.

[-] young_broccoli@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Seismic activity caused by large groups of people moving together is a well known and documented phenomenon.

The focus of the article is that her quake was bigger than other previous man-made quakes during massive events in the same location and is presented as a proof/show of how popular Taylor Swift is and how passionate are their fans. (much wow).

If you think "Fans of X celebrity are very "energetic"" is a news article that should be posted here its fine, its news after all and people seem to like it, but lets not pretend this is a scientific article in any way.

[-] rekliner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

See, this is the data that's interesting, and i do think it belongs here. I'd be curious if this is unofficially a record. A certain seismic measurement that is a certain distance from an event, entirely generated by people. This is assuming their movement created a bigger reading than the sound equipment, which is entirely plausible with people stomping in time.

You know the lab is well aware of the venue. The artist doesn't matter. It's the event they were impressed with.

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[-] zoe@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago

just block user.

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[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Taylor: “I’m just gonna shake shake shake — whoa! Too much shake!”

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

One of the most overrated artists.

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

swifties are on another level, eh?

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Big deal, I do that every time I have Benefiber with a cheese pizza

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Did the Google alerts work this time?

[-] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This beats the Beast Quake! That was a 2.0.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
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