TAccording to an expert, the boisterous dancing of Taylor Swift’s fans at her concerts at Seattle’s Lumen Field on July 22nd and 23rd was enough to trigger an earthquake of 2.3 magnitude.
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geology professor and seismologist at Western Washington University, claims that the 33-year-old singer’s record-breaking The Eras Tour—during which she performs an astounding 44 songs per night—is causing the earth to tremble.
“I seize the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,” Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. When I stack them, they’re practically indistinguishable.
“Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down,” Caplan-Auerbach said, drawing a comparison between Swift’s performance and the 2011 Beast Quake, when Seattle Seahawks fans set a new noise record with their stomps and yells for Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch. It lacks the predictability of a concert. Around ten hours of data were collected for Taylor Swift, with rhythm serving as the determining factor in behavior.
‘The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.’
An estimated 150,000 Swift superfans flocked to Glendale, Arizona on March 17 to witness the start of the North American leg of her record-breaking Eras tour.
The three-hour extravaganza has the pop sensation belting out 44 of her biggest singles while welcoming special guests such as rapper Ice Spice and Swift’s ex-boyfriend Matty Healy.
In August, a series of concerts will take place at the Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles to round out her sixth headline tour in the United States.
Her next stop on the tour will be in Latin America, where she’ll play concerts in nations including Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. On November 26, the Latin American leg will come to a close in Sao Paulo.
Swift will return to the stage in February 2024 for a pair of concerts in Japan, followed by her upcoming dominance in Australia and Singapore.
The highly-anticipated European leg, which begins in France and ends in the UK, will have 48 dates beginning on May 9.
In June of last year, in anticipation of the release of her tenth studio album Midnights, Swift made the long-awaited announcement that she would be embarking on her first tour in four years.
Throughout her 17-year career, she has experimented with country, pop, and folk music, thus she characterized it as a “journey” through all of her artistic phases.
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Oh my: The songstress, 33, has been breaking records with her The Eras Tour – which sees her belt out a whopping 44 songs a night – with the star’s fans making the earth move, according to Western Washington University geology professor and seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
After months of excitement, tour tickets went on sale in November.
But Ticketmaster’s catastrophic pre-sale debacle left pre-verified fans waiting in a virtual line for hours and others unable to purchase tickets at all.
Swift spoke out amid the chaos, telling her devout fanbase that she was just as ‘pissed off’ as everyone else is.
‘It goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans,’ she began in the lengthy post on Instagram.
‘We’ve been doing this for decades together and over the years, I’ve brought so many elements of my career in house.’
Taylor went on to explain – without mentioning the company by name – that she chose to use Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system because she thought it would ‘improve the quality of her fans’ experience,’ despite it being ‘really difficult’ for her to ‘trust an outside entity.’
‘I’ve done this SPECIFICALLY to improve the quality of my fans’ experience by doing it myself with my team, who care as much about my fans as I do,’ she continued.
‘It’s really difficult for me to trust an outside entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.’
The Cardigan songstress added that there were ‘multiple reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets’ and that she’s currently ‘trying to figure out how the situation can be improved moving forward.’
‘I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could,’ she said.
‘It’s truly amazing that 2.4 million people got tickets, but it really pisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them.’
Finally, she addressed the issue of ticket holders, saying, “All I can say is that my hope is to provide more opportunities for us all to get together and sing these songs.” This was her way of closing her statement.
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Impressive: Swift kicked off the North American leg of her record-breaking Eras tour in Glendale, Arizona on March 17 — drawing an estimated 150,000 superfans to the city (pictured)
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Journey; She described the tour as a ‘journey’ through all of her musical eras as she’s explored country, pop and folk over the span of her 17-year career; seen on March 17
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