Monitoring Crowd Eruptions

Monitoring Crowd Eruptions
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The classic case of mistaken seismic identity. Those 1-2 magnitude "earthquakes" in geologically stable English cities? Just football fans going berserk after a goal. Seismologists spend hours analyzing anomalous weekend data only to realize they've been recording the collective jumping of 50,000 humans in polyester jerseys. Science equipment doesn't know the difference between tectonic activity and pure sports euphoria. The instruments never lie, but they do occasionally watch soccer without telling you.

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