I feel the earth move under my feet : sports seismology
June 18, 2018 8:49 AM Subscribe
How exciting is it when your team beats the reigning World Cup champs in your first match against them? Enough to shake the earth, apparently!
BBC: "Mexican football fans could hardly contain their joy when Hirving Lozano scored a goal against Germany in Mexico's opening game of the World Cup. Supporters of the team jumped into the air when the ball hit the net in the 35th minute. But did their jubilant stomping really cause an earthquake as some media have reported? A tweet from Mexico's Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Investigations would suggest so. . . . The institute confirms that two of its seismometers local to celebrating fans picked up ground movement immediately after the winning goal against the defending champions. "During the game, the Mexican team managed to score 35 minutes and seven seconds in, at this moment our monitoring systems detected a seismic movement with an acceleration of 37m/s2 picked up by at least two sensors inside Mexico City. These were very probably produced by the massive celebrations," the blog reads."
USA Today: "Hirving Lozano scoring the lone goal in Mexico's 1-0 victory over reigning World Cup champion Germany appears to have led to an artificial earthquake in Mexico City on Sunday. Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match. Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."
IIGEA (En Español): "Éste 17 de Junio de 2018 se jugó el partido entre las selecciones de México y Alemania en su participación en la Copa Mundial de Rusia 2018. Millones de mexicanos se congregaron en plazas o parques públicos donde pudieron observar el desarrollo del juego en directo. Durante el partido la selección Mexicana logró conseguir una anotación al minuto 35:07, es el momento en el que nuestros sistemas de monitoreo detectaron un movimiento sísmico con asceleración de 37m/s2 por lo menos en 2 sensores dentro de la Ciudad de México, producido muy probablemente por la celebración del mismo de forma masiva."
BBC: "Mexican football fans could hardly contain their joy when Hirving Lozano scored a goal against Germany in Mexico's opening game of the World Cup. Supporters of the team jumped into the air when the ball hit the net in the 35th minute. But did their jubilant stomping really cause an earthquake as some media have reported? A tweet from Mexico's Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Investigations would suggest so. . . . The institute confirms that two of its seismometers local to celebrating fans picked up ground movement immediately after the winning goal against the defending champions. "During the game, the Mexican team managed to score 35 minutes and seven seconds in, at this moment our monitoring systems detected a seismic movement with an acceleration of 37m/s2 picked up by at least two sensors inside Mexico City. These were very probably produced by the massive celebrations," the blog reads."
USA Today: "Hirving Lozano scoring the lone goal in Mexico's 1-0 victory over reigning World Cup champion Germany appears to have led to an artificial earthquake in Mexico City on Sunday. Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match. Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."
IIGEA (En Español): "Éste 17 de Junio de 2018 se jugó el partido entre las selecciones de México y Alemania en su participación en la Copa Mundial de Rusia 2018. Millones de mexicanos se congregaron en plazas o parques públicos donde pudieron observar el desarrollo del juego en directo. Durante el partido la selección Mexicana logró conseguir una anotación al minuto 35:07, es el momento en el que nuestros sistemas de monitoreo detectaron un movimiento sísmico con asceleración de 37m/s2 por lo menos en 2 sensores dentro de la Ciudad de México, producido muy probablemente por la celebración del mismo de forma masiva."
This is rad as hell! I love this stuff, thank you for posting! I know I've heard about similar things, I think maybe when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl? Not to make it all about the US, of course - I wonder if there's a list of them somewhere, would be a cool data visualization exercise. Biggest artificial seismic events.
I didn't see the goal happen, but I definitely heard it - lot of very excited El Tri fans (or Germany haters?) out there.
posted by everybody had matching towels at 9:13 AM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I didn't see the goal happen, but I definitely heard it - lot of very excited El Tri fans (or Germany haters?) out there.
posted by everybody had matching towels at 9:13 AM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I guess after Herrera brought down the lightning in 2014 Osorio had to go one better. Mexican football fans are really demanding.
So bummed I missed this after rooting hard for Mexico back in 2014.
posted by gusottertrout at 9:15 AM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
So bummed I missed this after rooting hard for Mexico back in 2014.
posted by gusottertrout at 9:15 AM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
I now know what those random fireworks were all about.
me loves when random sports WOOTS echo through the neighborhood just because I get to WOOT with abandon.
posted by zengargoyle at 10:24 AM on June 18, 2018
me loves when random sports WOOTS echo through the neighborhood just because I get to WOOT with abandon.
posted by zengargoyle at 10:24 AM on June 18, 2018
The early returns on my decision to support Mexico in the World Cup are looking good.
posted by COD at 10:48 AM on June 18, 2018
posted by COD at 10:48 AM on June 18, 2018
Aha, that explains the random outburst of mad cheering in my neighborhood this weekend!
posted by tavella at 10:58 AM on June 18, 2018
posted by tavella at 10:58 AM on June 18, 2018
Yup, #beastquake was the nickname the internet gave to Marshawn Lynch's ability to cause a stadium full of Seattleites to celebrate so hard it registered on a PNSN seismometer nearby. I think my favorite visual is the one in this Seismological Research Letters article which breaks down the stages of the touchdown run against the seismogram pattern (the rest of the article is paywalled but you can see the image on the first-page preview here).
Anyway I hope we can look forward to further #golazoquakes as Mexico progresses through the Cup. Although I should note pedantically that these events are not really "causing earthquakes", they're just causing ground vibration intense enough to show up on seismometers, just like thunder and traffic and explosions and other very loud things can do.
posted by karayel at 12:00 PM on June 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
Anyway I hope we can look forward to further #golazoquakes as Mexico progresses through the Cup. Although I should note pedantically that these events are not really "causing earthquakes", they're just causing ground vibration intense enough to show up on seismometers, just like thunder and traffic and explosions and other very loud things can do.
posted by karayel at 12:00 PM on June 18, 2018 [2 favorites]
Some pictures and video of the post-game celebrations in Mexico City.
posted by Omon Ra at 12:10 PM on June 18, 2018
posted by Omon Ra at 12:10 PM on June 18, 2018
I am reminded of KathrynT describing how she watched the Seahawks...
posted by rmd1023 at 4:58 PM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by rmd1023 at 4:58 PM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
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