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Monday, June 18, 2018 –
10:31am
Rejoicing Mexican fans celebrating their team’s
match-winning goal against Germany in the World Cup may have
triggered a mini-earthquake.
On Sunday morning, earthquake monitoring
stations in Mexico City detected a small tremor which appeared to
have no natural cause.
Seismologists believe the explanation for the
mini-quake lies not in Mexico but in Russia. Moments before the
detectors picked up on the seismic activity, 22-year-old winger
Hirving Lozano tucked the ball into the corner of the German net in
Mexico’s first World Cup match.
It would prove to be the only goal of the game,
giving Mexico a surprise victory over the heavily favoured German
side.
In a tweet, SIMMSA – the seismological branch of
the country’s Institute for Geological and Atmospheric Studies –
said that the fans leaping out of their seats to celebrate the goal
may have triggered the mini-quake, which was too slight to be
noticed by humans.
El #pic.twitter.com/mACKesab3b
— SIMMSA (@SIMMSAmex) June 17, 2018
Man-made tremors are not an unknown phenomenon.
“Induced seismic activity has been measured from everything from
nuclear testing to fracking”, says USA Today.
“The earthquake detected in Mexico City was of
artificial origin,” they wrote. “Possibly from mass jumping during
the Mexico side’s goal in the World Cup.”
The feelgood explanation did not convince everyone,
however. Arturo Iglesias, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, cast doubt upon the claims, telling Spanish
daily El País that the idea that fan activity could
trigger an earthquake was nothing more than a “leg-pull”.
“If a person jumps up and down besides a sensor,
it picks it up, but that isn’t an earthquake,” he said.
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