Why No More Earthquake Games?

I remember Reading somewhere that it has registered since it’s just not as big a deal.

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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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It has nothing to do with the configuration.

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......

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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

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I'm confused. Did he not give the reasons?

Mauck to Green - '03

Flynn to Byrd - '07



Both of these probably would have registered. What else?

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.

Hardly anybody in the stadium at the end of games when a monumental event would happen!

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Hardly anybody in the stadium at the end of games when a monumental event would happen!

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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.

2007 florida game.

multiple moments

I’d be willing to be that these games had something register: UGA 2003, UF 2007, Auburn 2007, Bama 2012, OM 2014

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.)