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re: I'm curious to know more about the earthquake game...
Posted on 10/29/14 at 4:28 pm to tigbit
Posted on 10/29/14 at 4:28 pm to tigbit
The seismograph that picked up the "earthquake" is located in the building where the LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics is. Its located between south side of the quad and the Union.
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WHAT HAPPENED Don Stevenson, a seismologist working for the Louisiana Geological Survey but technically employed by LSU, wasn’t at the game that night. He was at home, less than a mile from LSU’s campus. He didn’t watch the game on TV. He didn’t listen to it on the radio. He did hear a “tremendous roar” come from the direction of the stadium at one point in the evening and later discovered that LSU had won their football game with a last-minute touchdown. epicenter.jpg The following Sunday morning, Stevenson woke up like the rest of the world. I went to church to petition the Lord for understanding, he headed to LSU’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex to change the recording charts in the seismic laboratory (they’re changed daily). “While changing the chart on a demonstration instrument that I had installed on the floor of the laboratory, I noticed a relatively large signal from Saturday evening,” Stevenson says. “Upon closer inspection I realized it coincided with the roar I had heard and the winning touchdown from the game the night before.” He labeled the blip and posted the seismogram in his office window where it stayed “for some time” until “I decided to have the LGS Cartography Department dress it up in a frame and add a formal caption so it could be displayed on a more permanent basis.” Anyone up on Earthquake Game lore is likely aware that the “quake” was discovered after the fact, but they’re also likely ignorant as to just how much time passed between the event and hearing about it. How long was it before the story got out? According to Stevenson, “at least a year or two, maybe more.” Although acknowledging that the seismic activity attributed to the football game was, because of his display, quasi-common knowledge around his particular ward of the geology department, Stevenson attributes its public dissemination to an ESPN hype-umentary filmed sometime prior to his leaving LSU in the summer of ’91.[2]
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Posted on 10/29/14 at 4:32 pm to NeverRains
At the time of the TD that created the event TS was not full. Some people had already left. I was midway up on the NE End Zone where the ball was caught. It was crazy in the Stadium and very loud. One of the best games I ever watched in TS. People forget that Auburn got the ball back with a chance to go down the field and win the game. Defense came through big time.
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Posted on 10/29/14 at 5:04 pm to whoisnickdoobs
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I think it was one of three things:
A. Actual plates or earth movement and it was a coincidence it happened during the game.
B. A faulty reading.
C. The LSU media/advertising department being very creative and decided to come up with a little folklore to make LSU sound cool.
After looking at the photo, I think it was actually one of four things.
D. Someone spilled coffee on a very crucial spot on the seismograph printout.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 5:05 pm to NeverRains
I hope somebody brings a seismograph for the Bama game. I have a feeling it will go down in history.
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Posted on 10/29/14 at 5:25 pm to TBoy@LSU
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How long was it before the story got out? According to Stevenson, “at least a year or two, maybe more.”
The Reveille ran the story with a picture of the chart less than a week after the game.
I was in the student section for the game and heavily intoxicated.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 5:38 pm to LSUGrad9295
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What made the earthquake game itself unique is that the actual event that caused the earthquake (the touchdown) was the final end result of a lot of build up during what had been an otherwise very frustrating night.
Yes, I was there and remember. The place exploded like nowhere else I have ever been because of all that didn't happen before. And, it was 4th down. I don't think LSU passed midfield before that final drive.
It was pure pandemonium and release. 80K sounded like 150K.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 5:58 pm to AlaTiger
I was there as a freshman. I think it is more folklore than fact.
Regardless, it was totally insane. I remember the noise in the tunnels leaving the stadium. Then, once outside, people were going crazy. Random girls would come up to you and give you a big fat kisses of happiness! #GoodOldDays
Regardless, it was totally insane. I remember the noise in the tunnels leaving the stadium. Then, once outside, people were going crazy. Random girls would come up to you and give you a big fat kisses of happiness! #GoodOldDays
Posted on 10/29/14 at 6:11 pm to NeverRains
I can answer these questions from this perspective. I lived in the South Stadium dormitory at that time and was in my dorm room in the walls of the stadium for that game. I didn't attend games, except that I would sometimes walk in in the second half when they stopped taking tickets. Some of us used to break in late at night sometimes through a section of bent screen and run around the field and smoke things. I did not go to the field side on the night of the earthquake game.
All day before the game a group of us who lived in South Stadium did what we always did on game days, we sat on the front steps of the dorm and watched people walk around the stadium. When we would take notice of someone we would watch for them and count how many times they would circle the stadium. We incorporated that into our drinking. We would also duck into rooms and smoke things. South stadium was not air conditioned and was not supervised in any way.
The game that night was loud, and it got very loud at the end. For every game there is a vibration and echoing sound that we could feel. For big games you can feel strong vibrations when the crowd gets going. That night things got very loud toward the end of the game and the atmosphere was obviously rocking.
To tell the truth, however, we didn't notice any vibration which we perceived as more or less than any other big game. That the seismograph in the geology building registered an earthquake was surprising. I don't think anyone expected that. There was no noticeable "earthquake."
All day before the game a group of us who lived in South Stadium did what we always did on game days, we sat on the front steps of the dorm and watched people walk around the stadium. When we would take notice of someone we would watch for them and count how many times they would circle the stadium. We incorporated that into our drinking. We would also duck into rooms and smoke things. South stadium was not air conditioned and was not supervised in any way.
The game that night was loud, and it got very loud at the end. For every game there is a vibration and echoing sound that we could feel. For big games you can feel strong vibrations when the crowd gets going. That night things got very loud toward the end of the game and the atmosphere was obviously rocking.
To tell the truth, however, we didn't notice any vibration which we perceived as more or less than any other big game. That the seismograph in the geology building registered an earthquake was surprising. I don't think anyone expected that. There was no noticeable "earthquake."
Posted on 10/29/14 at 7:02 pm to TBoy@LSU
At Howe-Russel, you could watch the seismograph through a window.
It was so sensitive, you could jump up and down and move some of the needles. In fact, a sign on the window encouraged it.
So, there wasn't an actual earthquake. It was just vibration from the stadium being picked up by the machine.
You should have seen the readout they posted from the 1985 Exxon explosion.
It was so sensitive, you could jump up and down and move some of the needles. In fact, a sign on the window encouraged it.
So, there wasn't an actual earthquake. It was just vibration from the stadium being picked up by the machine.
You should have seen the readout they posted from the 1985 Exxon explosion.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 7:07 pm to geauxlobo
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I think it is more folklore than fact.
Don't think too much. You might hurt something.
[link=( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Game)]Earthquake Game[/link]
Posted on 10/29/14 at 7:14 pm to LSUGrad9295
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. When LSU got the ball with about 6:00 left at about their own 30 yard line, everyone could sense that this was LSU's last chance to do something.
I remember thinking that we were going to win this game....even after 33 dropped the ball.....there was a confidence. It was much like the game the other night in the stadium...there was a sense that LSU was going to beat Ole Miss....even though had not led until midway through the 4th.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 7:37 pm to LSUgusto
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So, there wasn't an actual earthquake. It was just vibration from the stadium being picked up by the machine.
You don't say.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 7:37 pm to NeverRains
It was an awful game. Very frustrating because LSU got the piss beat out of them for about 58 minutes. A number of miracles occured to keep the game close, then LSU won it with a great drive.
The whole earthquake thing was a fabrication. Obviously there was nothing remarkable about that particular celebration, and we've never had an "earthquake" since. But it made for a cool story.
The whole earthquake thing was a fabrication. Obviously there was nothing remarkable about that particular celebration, and we've never had an "earthquake" since. But it made for a cool story.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:35 pm to michael corleone
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Pretty sure Eddie did not drop the pass on first down. He was out of the back of the end zone when he caught it.
This is correct. I went back and watched the tape to recall the set of events.
On the previous set of downs on that drive (1st and 10 from the AU20), Fuller did drop a pass right at the end zone. He was wide open This further added to the frustration/buildup at the end. ESPN got a great shot of Hodson and Archer both just clapping their hands and saying "that's ok..let's go" after that drop.
Fuller drops one....then later catches one, but out of bounds...then catches the big one on 4th down. Good stuff.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:49 pm to LSUGrad9295
All of above and also recall they had a series left that I forget the QB came a hair from completing a pass in FG range that went to the turf at very end. Think AU went to Sugar that year did not?
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:27 pm to Rebel
So half of the crowd left halfway thru a 6-0 game?
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:40 pm to whoisnickdoobs
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I think it was one of three things:
A. Actual plates or earth movement and it was a coincidence it happened during the game.
B. A faulty reading.
C. The LSU media/advertising department being very creative and decided to come up with a little folklore to make LSU sound cool.
Thank you, honest Tiger fan.
If there is indeed the possibility that Tiger Stadium could cause an earthquake ( and I think it is plausible, but unlikely), there is NO WAY it has only happened once in 90 years. I think of the 2003 Georgia game, the '00 Tennessee game, and the '72 Ole Miss games right off the top of my head.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:50 pm to NeverRains
My wife saw her first game in Tiger Stadium that night - our seats were on the 50 yard line, east side, row 5. For 58 minutes, she kept telling me "I thought you told me this place was loud." After Hodson to Fuller, I asked her if she could hear it now - she said "hear it hell, I can feel it." That is a big yes to question #2>
Posted on 10/29/14 at 9:55 pm to TBoy@LSU
I have no idea whether or not there was an "earthquake." What I do know is three things:
1) I had way too much Captain Morgan before the game.
2) I was a grad assistant and had several of the key players in my class.
3) It was the most exciting single moment in sport I have ever experienced in person.
It was crazy, crazy loud and I was hoarse for two days and I was shaking when i walked to my truck.
1) I had way too much Captain Morgan before the game.
2) I was a grad assistant and had several of the key players in my class.
3) It was the most exciting single moment in sport I have ever experienced in person.
It was crazy, crazy loud and I was hoarse for two days and I was shaking when i walked to my truck.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 10:00 pm to NeverRains
Read Gumbo for the Tiger Soul www.gumboforthetigersoul.com The Earthquake game is chronicled in there by players and fans! 
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