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Shake to the Beat: Exploring the Seismic Signals and Stadium Response of Concerts and Music Fans #SRL Seattle may have experienced its own Swift Quake last July, but at an August 2023 concert, Taylor Swift’s fans in Los Angeles gave scientists a lot of shaking to ponder. After some debate, a research team led by Gabrielle Tepp of Caltech concluded that it was likely the dancing and jumping motions of the audience at SoFi Stadium—not the musical beats or reverberations of the sound system—that generated the concert’s distinct harmonic tremors. In their study, Tepp and colleagues show how they were able to identify the seismic signature of individual songs and determine the strength of each song’s tremor. They even have a little bit of data on how Swift’s concert stacks up—seismically, that is—against other Summer of 2023 SoFi concerts, including Metallica, Beyoncé and Morgan Wallen. For more about their findings, please check out the paper and accompanying press release. Paper: https://lnkd.in/gGR5psMx Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gSBZW3My