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Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com)
According to officials in Mexico, an artificial earthquake was reported in Mexico City that was possibly caused by "massive jumps during the goal from the Mexico national soccer team" on Sunday. KABC reports: Hirving Lozano scored the lone goal in the 35th minute, picking up Javier Hernandez's pass inside the penalty area and beating Mesut Ozil before shooting past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from 10 yards. The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. Mexico upset Germany, the defending champion, 1-0. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup. "Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match," reports USA Today. "Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."
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Is it just me, or has "Fake" now become one of those annoying headline clickbait words?
Anyhow, it's just a man-made seismic event. And it's not like this hasn't been happening for a very long time. I recall various local sports events triggering nearby seismometers, which seems to be a favorite story in local news. These instruments are incredibly sensitive, and will pick up stadium crowds, construction, excavation blasts, and of course, underground nuclear tests.
Good for Mexico, I guess, but not sure why this is notable for Slashdot.
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During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!
Don't forget to list Confederate (civil war loser participation flag) and Nazi (WW2 loser participation flag) flags as disrespectful trashy nation flags that various Americans fly for unknown reasons!
During NASCAR events, why do so many crackers fly the battle flag of the shithole country that lost the Civil War?
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It was similar to one of the question sent to XKCD : "What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"
https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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10 times less boring than baseball!
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Somebody with a better grasp of English that you, apparently
Maybe they should call it an Earth Hack just tick us all off.
It is certainly within the ability of seismometers to detect nearby people jumping, heck they are can detect people walking nearby. So I am prepared to encounter a story about crowd activity being detected by a local station, there is nothing inherently unreasonable about it.
But the only source for this story appear to be a Spanish language tweet with three seismic channels snippets displayed without scales on any axis, or other identifying information, and with a red and a green line drawn on it. One of them presumably marking the goal.
But the two lines look like they intersect the data stream at random points. Neither one seems to mark anything that stands out from the background activity.
When on-line searching I found absolutely no credible sources coming up, it is all popular media repeating more or less the same thing, but with the "telephone game" effect. Some stories quite magnitudes, but they range from 1 to 3, an energy range 30,000 fold and are probably just speculation reported as fact.
Until someone comes with an actual source for the measurement and a real magnitude measurement (with someone to back it up) I'm dismissing this as BS.
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