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The earthquake game - myth? Any geologists out there?
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:48 am
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:48 am
I've always kind of doubted this story? Yes, I've seen the photos of the printout. It's blurry and I don't know what I'm looking at. But why hasn't it happened before or since? There are many instances when it was just as loud. Why didn't it happen at the '03 UGA game. Or PP7's punt return versus WVA? There were a lot more people in the stadim then, shouldn't it be louder? Also, why hasn't it happened in other stadiums? And what was the technology in 1987? Were there other seismograph machines that could have verified this?
This post was edited on 10/19/11 at 10:58 am
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Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:49 am to bulldogger
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:49 am to bulldogger
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It's blurry and I don't know what I'm looking at.
It's blurry...because the needle was going ape shite.
I was there.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:49 am to bulldogger
It's not a myth. It happened. But it also happens at just about every LSU game when a big play happens.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:49 am to bulldogger
07 auburn comes to mind also... for the people who were there: how loud was it compared to those games?
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:50 am to Bubba Hotep
Bubba Hotep
I could accept this. This makes sense. I'll emaily geo dept.
I could accept this. This makes sense. I'll emaily geo dept.
This post was edited on 10/19/11 at 10:52 am
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:51 am to bulldogger
shut your whore mouth
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:52 am to bulldogger
It wasn't noise that caused the seismic detection, it was the vibration of the stadium caused by people jumping up and down in the stands.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:52 am to GM19
It probably does happen often... they just happened to have a seismograph on campus doing a study unrelated at that time.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:52 am to bulldogger
We faked it. We faked all of it.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:53 am to tigerinridgeland
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It wasn't noise that caused the seismic detection, it was the vibration of the stadium caused by people jumping up and down in the stands.
This.
I was in the student section. The entire section jumped up and landed at almost exactly the same time. You could feel it.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:53 am to xXLSUXx
pretty sure the seismograph hasn't been there for quite some time now
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:54 am to White Shadeaux
I was at the game my freshman year, and I remember in the next week or so walking by a printout that was taped to a glass walk in the geology building where someone had indicated, I think with just an ink pen, when the tremor was detected. I remember thinking it was kind of neat, but it took a little time thereafter for the Reveille and then the "real" media to make it "The Earthquake" game.
I am no geologist, but I suspect that any similar event in Tiger STadium would have created a similar reading assuming the same instruments, etc. But this is when it was noticed, it was the result of a historic, come-from-behind win over Auburn, so it - and no other game - gets to be The Earthquake Game.
I am no geologist, but I suspect that any similar event in Tiger STadium would have created a similar reading assuming the same instruments, etc. But this is when it was noticed, it was the result of a historic, come-from-behind win over Auburn, so it - and no other game - gets to be The Earthquake Game.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:54 am to 3rdRowTrashTalker
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It probably does happen often... they just happened to have a seismograph on campus doing a study unrelated at that time.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 10:59 am to bulldogger
I believe that its not related to volume of the fans but to their jumping up and down. This is part of the reason that I think the stadium was louder back when there were only 67,000 seats but they were all aluminum benches as opposed to the newer plastic benches. 134,000 feet stomping on them will make an aweful racket and that action is what moved the seismograph needle.
For what its worth, the loudest I've ever heard Tiger Stadium was when Bert Jones hit Brad Davis on the last play of the Ole Miss game in '72 I believe.
For what its worth, the loudest I've ever heard Tiger Stadium was when Bert Jones hit Brad Davis on the last play of the Ole Miss game in '72 I believe.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 11:01 am to tiger 56
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For what its worth, the loudest I've ever heard Tiger Stadium was when Bert Jones hit Brad Davis on the last play of the Ole Miss game in '72 I believe.
I was there and you are correct. The place exploded. Literally. Parts of me landed at the 40-yard line.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 11:03 am to tiger 56
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tiger 56
good stuff.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 11:04 am to bulldogger
They printed that sheet out in the same room they filmed the moon landing.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 11:06 am to chimneylooker
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They printed that sheet out in the same room they filmed the moon landing.
yep. same room where the WMD report was written up.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 11:06 am to liquid rabbit
I heard it happened again when Charlie Weis ripped arse during the Florida game
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