Swifties shake up Seattle — literally

The ground under Seattle shook to the beat of Taylor Swift last weekend, as thousands of fans crowded into Lumen Field, and bounced to every beat.

Chatter erupted on a local Northwest earthquake Facebook group July 22 as the concert was underway. Local seismic experts were watching activity in the city, and some noticed that the massive waves seemed to follow a pattern, almost as if they were set to music.

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Western Washington University Professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach looked further into the data on July 22 and July 23 and found seismic waves at Lumen Field followed a clear rhythm.

In fact, she lined up the waves from Saturday and Sunday evening and found that they were nearly identical, and likely followed Swift's set, after the doors opened and the show began.

"Again you can see that they are very similar (the ground moves up and down in the same way), but the timing isn't exactly the same — again, this would be pretty normal since the concert wouldn't be expected to progress identically, even with the same music," Caplan-Auerbach wrote in a post on Facebook.

As noted by KING5, the Swift Quake was considerably larger than the famous Beast Quake of 2010, when Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch scored a touchdown in a playoff game. The score prompted fans to erupt in celebration, which nearby seismic monitors picked up.

To be fair, the crowd at the Swift concert was considerably larger than at a Seahawks game, with the audience also present on the field, and dancing consistently for several hours.

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