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Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the goal-goal-goal dept.

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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  1. What If (XKCD) did it by Eloking · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. Re:Fake Headlines by chispito · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    Those are all events that are localized. This is apparently just... people all over the place in Mexico City, watching on TV. Much different.

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  3. Re:It's a good thing by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Informative

    soccer is almost as boring as hockey to watch on television

    10 times less boring than baseball!

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  4. Re:One language please by BoogieChile · · Score: 4, Informative

    Somebody with a better grasp of English that you, apparently

  5. Re:It's ARTIFICIAL, not FAKE, FFS by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they should call it an Earth Hack just tick us all off.