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Shake it! Taylor Swift prompted a seismic occasion at her Los Angeles live performance, a brand new examine confirms.
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An instance of a live performance tremor waveform for tune 9 (“Love Story”). (G. Tepp et al. (2024) Seismological Analysis Letters by way of SWNS)
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(Photograph by Paul V by way of Wikimedia Commons)
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a) Vertical element spectrograms from 5 stations at various distances for 4 hours across the Swift live performance on August 5, 2023. (b) Instance live performance tremor waveform for tune 9 (“Love Story” ). (G. Tepp et al. (2024) Seismological Analysis Letters by way of SWNS)
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