RESEARCH

Seisometric Sports Score Create Large
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Recording a celebratory quake

NFL Seattle Seahawks fans' enthusiastic stomping and cheering during playoff season is so powerful it can be felt by sensitive earthquake-detection equipment, with one eruption titled ‘Beast Quake’ in 2011 registering as a magnitude-2 quake. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network have shared real-time waveform data with fans to track the celebrations.

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