Taylor Swift fans are literally causing earthquakes with their Eras tour moves-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro

Taylor Swift fans are literally moving the earth to see the star (Picture: Tom Cooper/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Taylor Swift fans have been shaking off more than just their dance moves as it seems they’re the cause of an actual earthquake.

The All Too Well hitmaker has been bringing her mammoth Eras tour to different states across the US before it journeys to the UK in 2024.

The tour has been full of weird and wonderful moments, from being joined onstage by rumoured lover Matty Healy to laughing off an apology from Kanye West and having to cower from flying objects.

And it seems we’ve hit peak wild fan moment as it has been reported Swifties caused an earthquake during the musician’s recent show at Seattle’s Lumen Fields.

Seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told CNN that the ‘Swift Quakes’ took place on July 22 and 23 and that the dancing at the shows caused seismic activity ‘equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.’

The Western Washington University geology professor noticed the strange phenomenon while moderating a Pacific Northwest Facebook group, the outlet reported.

Seismic activity the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded at Swift’s recent Seattle show (Picture: Mat Hayward/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

The Eras tour is currently making its way around the US (Picture: Mat Hayward/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

‘I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,’ she said. ‘If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.’

It’s not the first time a quake has been caused by crowds, with Caplan-Auerback comparing the Swift Quake to the Beast Quake of 2011.

The Beast Quake occurred when Seattle Seahawk fans celebrated Marshawn ‘Beast Mode’ Lynch’s touchdown during the NFC Wild Card game facing the New Orleans Saints.

However, the Swift Quake rates higher on the seismography with Caplan Auerback commenting: ‘The shaking was twice as strong as ‘Beast Quake.’ It absolutely doubled it.’

She continued: ‘The primary difference is the duration of shaking. Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually, it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert.

‘For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.’

Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce, 33, recently revealed that he was among the crowd at a recent concert – admitting that he tried, and failed, to shoot his shot with the Enchanted singer.

In a new episode of his New Heights podcast, the athlete opened up about trying to meet the Grammy-winner backstage, to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it.

‘I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,’ he told his brother, Jason Kelce.

‘I was a little butthurt that I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.

‘If you’re up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets, and I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it.’

When asked to clarify if he meant his jersey number or his phone number, Travis said: ‘You know…She doesn’t meet anybody, or at least she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personal.’

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