Taylor Swift rocked Edinburgh last weekend, playing to more than 200,000 fans over three nights in a seismic event that had the earth moving. The energetic Swifties made the ground shake with their cheers, dances, and stomps, with monitoring stations detecting seismic activity from miles away.
The Friday night concert saw the most intense reaction from fans, with the ground moving a maximum of 23.4 newton-meters. The seismic activity peaked during the song “Ready For It?” with fans creating approximately 80kW of power, equivalent to around 6,000 car batteries.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) was able to measure the reaction of thousands of concert-goers remotely through their data, with seismologist Callum Harrison expressing excitement at exploring seismic activity created by a different kind of phenomenon.
Fans from all over the world traveled to Edinburgh to see the 14-time Grammy winner perform, with the concert marking the first of 17 UK dates for Swift. The tour is on track to become the most lucrative concert tour in music history, with a projected revenue of over $2 billion by the time it wraps up in December.
The seismic activity generated by the concert was unlikely to have been felt by anyone other than those in the immediate vicinity, but it certainly left a lasting impression on the Swifties who danced the night away in Edinburgh.
