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On Saturday, the Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks will meet for a NFC divisional playoff [American-style football] game at CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle. But while football fans across the country watch the showdown, a team of scientists from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) will be keeping an eye on a different part of the action — testing an earthquake early warning system with the (inadvertent) help of Seahawks fans.
Back in 2011, a stunning comeback by the Seahawks led to such raucous celebration by the fans in CenturyLink Field that a nearby earthquake sensor picked up on the vibrations caused by the stomping of elated fans. Quickly nicknamed the 'Beast Quake' researchers decided to install more sensors to see if they could capture the phenomenon again. With the new sensors active, last year they were able to monitor 'DanceQuakes' caused by fans dancing in between large plays.
http://www.popsci.com/scientists-set-monitor-seahawks-stadium-fan-quakes
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday January 09 2015, @09:51PM
Hah! Only when the team visits Italy.
But have you seen the TopCats Panthers Cheer Squad? Definitely pantsquake material.
http://www.panthers.com/topcats/index.html [panthers.com]
I hear that they are associated with some kind of frivolous contest about imaginary territorial advancement of some kind...
You're betting on the pantomime horse...