AC/DC's Melbourne Show Registered Seismic Activity On Nearby Earthquake Detectors

AC/DC's opening night of their Power Up Tour at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday (November 12) was so electrifying that earthquake equipment two miles away detected ground vibrations equivalent to low-frequency seismic waves. "The sound waves that people were experiencing nearby and feeling something through their bodies, that's the equivalent to what our seismographs feel," said Adam Pascale, chief scientist at the Seismology Research Centre, who clarified, "We're picking up the ground motion, we're not picking up the sound from the air." According to the Centre, the ground movement was caused by both powerful speakers on the floor of the venue and the energetic crowd jumping up and down. While AC/DC made their presence felt in their return home to Australia for the first time in a decade, it wasn't as intense as Taylor Swift's recent Eras Tour shows at the same venue, which generated the largest signals ever received by the Centre for a concert. AC/DC's Power Up Tour continues with upcoming dates in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbane.