re: Louder stadium

After halftime, definitely tiger stadium.

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Not to get too scientific or anything, but only Tiger Stadium has registered enough ruckus to register as an earthquake.

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Seismographs measure movement, not noise. Still impressive that the Hodson pass generated that much motion but it wasn't crowd noise.

And there were several identifiable registered events last year when the Seahawks rocked the Saints on MNF. So it does happen in places other than TS.

There will never be a louder stadium that I will experience in my lifetime from start to finish than the Superdome was for the Saints-Lions playoff game in 2012.

This topic gets brought up on here alot. I'm a Seahawks and LSU fan so I have 0 biased. But most people who have been to both (at least who post on here) say Seahawks games are louder.
But the atmosphere at a LSU game is more electric, Seattle doesn't have that special feeling like Tiger Stadium.

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So noise alone doesn't make things move?

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Of course noise alone can make things move. The bomb in OKC registered a magnitude around 3 (I believe the seismo was in OKC, prob less than 10m. away) But that explosion easily exceeded 200dB+, enough to instantly rupture your eardrums and probably kill you from sound wave shock alone.

Sound from an exceptionally loud crowd? Around 135-138dB. Not enough to break glass, let alone move the needle on a seismograph. For that, you need resonance. Think jumping up and down and clapping.

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Might wanna look into the workings of a speaker, or maybe even your own ears, which operate by noise vibrations the brain turns into what is commonly known as speech.

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Yeah, I'm pretty well familiar with the structure of the ear. But rather than be a smug dick I'll just say that if you're at all interested in this sort of thing, PNSN is using crowd energy/resonance to study the effect on stadium motion during Seahawks games. It's actually pretty interesting stuff.

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And here is this tool's bailout part.

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Really wasn't trying to be a tool. But the idea that TS is the only place where this has ever happened is goofy. Some soccer stadium in Turkey consistently clocks 137dB and I'm sure blips the nearest seismo. It happens all the time in Seattle's stadium. And my guess is that the LSU geo dept registers events whenever the stadium starts bouncing on a Saturday. It's really not unique (but it is pretty f'ing awesome, IMO).