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Why No More Earthquake Games?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 1:15 am
Posted on 8/3/20 at 1:15 am
I just watched the Earthquake Game again. I was there in 1988. That may have been the loudest few seconds in Tiger Stadium history, although many others have come pretty close. During the broadcast, they were interviewing a geologist who listed a number of reasons why Tiger Stadium would not register on the seismograph again, one of which had to do with the configuration of the stadium. Tiger Stadium held 79,000 + in 1988 with a west side upper deck. It holds 102,000 + now with east , west and south upper decks. What is it about the configuration of the stadium that will not allow us to make the earth move again?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 1:25 am to geauxpurple
I remember Reading somewhere that it has registered since it’s just not as big a deal.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 1:57 am to SammyTiger
I don’t think they have the Geology department anymore
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:30 am to geauxpurple
quote:It has nothing to do with the configuration.
What is it about the configuration of the stadium that will not allow us to make the earth move again?
It has everything to do with the people sitting in the configuration.
79,000 back in 1988 were louder and much more raucous than the 102,000 of current day; many of whom are of the Free Corporate Tickets, See and be Seen, No real connection to the University, Leave at half-time, Gotta beat the traffic, Go back to their tailgate for more alcohol snowflake newbie category......
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:00 am to semjase
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It has everything to do with the people sitting in the configuration.
This is obviously not the right answer. While today’s crowds are probably less raucous, they certainly react just as much to the big moments in the big games.
As someone pointed out above, there was nothing about the Earthquake Game that hasn’t been replicated a dozen times before and since. In short, it was sensationalism to begin with, but it makes a good legend.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:24 am to geauxpurple
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What is it about the configuration of the stadium that will not allow us to make the earth move again?
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they were interviewing a geologist who listed a number of reasons why Tiger Stadium would not register on the seismograph again
I'm confused. Did he not give the reasons?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:50 am to atxfan
i remember they took out the meter.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 7:53 am to Penrod
Mauck to Green - '03
Flynn to Byrd - '07
Both of these probably would have registered. What else?
Flynn to Byrd - '07
Both of these probably would have registered. What else?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:12 am to geauxpurple
I was at that game as well. It was not the loudness of the stadium but the fact that people jumped in unison when the touchdown was scored. That set off the seismograph in the geology department. My guess is the way the new East upper deck was designed and put in place that had to do with the configuration. The old East upper deck was basically straight up where the current one is more slanted.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:40 am to MasterKnight
I was there as well, remember this was the late 4th quarter of a really close game.Plus it was at night and the tension had been growing all game. Finally with Hodson to Fuller the pressure valve gets released and everyone went bat shite crazy.
Back in 1988 going to the games was a commitment and you stayed and got liquored up. Hell, I knew sherriff's deputies that would go into the Fraternity section and get their 2nd quarter refreshments. The stadium was much older at the time. So maybe it handled vibration differently. I knew Geology guys there who said this was no big deal that big plays in big games always registered. This one got press because the spike was a bit more pronounced than usual. It was more of a PR move at the time.
Back in 1988 going to the games was a commitment and you stayed and got liquored up. Hell, I knew sherriff's deputies that would go into the Fraternity section and get their 2nd quarter refreshments. The stadium was much older at the time. So maybe it handled vibration differently. I knew Geology guys there who said this was no big deal that big plays in big games always registered. This one got press because the spike was a bit more pronounced than usual. It was more of a PR move at the time.
This post was edited on 8/3/20 at 8:41 am
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:47 am to geauxpurple
Hardly anybody in the stadium at the end of games when a monumental event would happen!
Posted on 8/3/20 at 8:50 am to sicboy
quote:Jones to Davis, 1972 Ole Miss 1 second game. Student section for sure did a LOT of stomping on the benches back then. As wild as the crowd was at the finish I would think that should have registered.
Mauck to Green - '03
Flynn to Byrd - '07
Both of these probably would have registered. What else?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:02 am to 2geaux
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Hardly anybody in the stadium at the end of games when a monumental event would happen!
Yea the stadium was empty when Chase scored that final touchdown against Florida. Sorry I must have missed that when I was in the fully packed Tiger Stadium going insane. Texas A&M was a blowout and that stadium was still pretty full at the end of it and was packed until Joe Burrow got taken out.
During the big games that stadium is just as good as it ever was. Everyone just wants to judge the stadium based off of what it looks like when LSU blows teams out.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:14 am to geauxpurple
Are football fans fatter today than 1988?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:38 am to sicboy
2007 florida game.
multiple moments
multiple moments
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:41 am to KiwiHead
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The stadium was much older at the time.
um, the lower bowl is NOT newer today than it was 32 years ago.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 9:46 am to geauxpurple
I’d be willing to be that these games had something register: UGA 2003, UF 2007, Auburn 2007, Bama 2012, OM 2014
Posted on 8/3/20 at 10:04 am to geauxpurple
Probably has happened since but it’s not as cool of a story. Or the meter was updated
Posted on 8/3/20 at 10:34 am to geauxpurple
Was a junior at LSU that year and at the game. Also studying geology. The seismograph was on loan to LSU and is no longer there. It was sensitive enough to detect heavy traffic flow on Florida Blvd and Government. There were other big plays that registered, but none so much as that one. One of the geology TA's noticed the spike when he checked the graph on Monday morning after the game, then checked the time and saw it coincided with the TD. The story made it to Tuesday's edition of The Daily Reveille and grew from there. (I still have my old, yellowed copy of the paper somewhere amongst all my boxes of stuff from college.)
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 10:37 am to Swamp Angel
This. The seismograph is no longer there.
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