Oasis gig beats Taylor Swift for most 'ground-shaking' concert

Oasis provided the astir "ground-shaking" show astatine Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium erstwhile they past performed determination successful 2009, according to investigation of seismic data.

The Gallagher brothers' past Scottish gig has topped the illustration for the astir almighty seismic performance astatine the venue successful the past 20 years, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said.

Oasis' June 2009 gig bushed the Red Hot Chili Peppers successful June 2004, Kings of Leon successful June 2011 and Taylor Swift successful June 2024 - erstwhile measuring the highest earthshaking powerfulness of each event.

The measurements were taken from a seismic monitoring station, immoderate 4km from the venue.

At highest powerfulness of 215.06kW, the Oasis gig was much than doubly arsenic almighty arsenic the adjacent strongest 1 by the Red Hot Chili Peppers astatine 106.87kW.

Murrayfield Stadium's astir seismic concerts:

• Oasis: 17 June 2009, 215.06kW
• Red Hot Chili Peppers: 14 June 2004, 106.87kW
• Kings of Leon: 26 June 2011, 96.18kW
• Taylor Swift: 8 June 2024, 82.56kW
• Foo Fighters: 8 September 2015, 78.65kW
• Harry Styles: 26 May 2023, 65.38kW
• Beyonce: 20 May 2023, 29.31kW
• Robbie Williams: 31 May 2025, 14.18kW
• Bon Jovi: 22 June 2011, 13.20kW
• Spice Girls: 8 June 2019, 10.63kW
• One Direction: 3 June 2014, 6.82kW

The rankings were revealed up of Oasis' instrumentality to the Scottish superior this play arsenic portion of their comeback tour.

The powerfulness output is not related to the measurement of the set oregon the crowd; rather, it is the question of fans jumping and dancing successful clip to the music, with the tallness of the jumping and value of the assemblage besides imaginable factors.

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BGS seismologist Callum Harrison said: "In 2009, seismic signals generated by Oasis fans were accordant with a assemblage vigor of 215kW astatine its highest - capable to powerfulness astir 30 of the scooters featured connected the iconic Be Here Now medium cover.

"Our web of sensors astir the state is delicate capable to prime up crushed question from a root miles distant that whitethorn not beryllium detectable to humans - and precise capable to registry nonstop timestamps for erstwhile the events occur.

"The highest vigor speechmaking was recorded astir 8.30pm connected that June evening backmost successful 2009, which correlates to the clip the set archetypal took the signifier and performed Rock 'N' Roll Star, which couldn't beryllium much fitting successful presumption of topping our seismic euphony chart."

The BGS keeps an archive of continuous crushed question recordings from seismic sensors astir the country, dating backmost respective decades.

Mr Harrison said: "Improving our knowing of humanities earthquakes is an important portion of BGS probe successful trying to recognize and mitigate the seismic hazard astir the country."

Oasis volition instrumentality to Murrayfield's signifier connected Friday, Saturday and Tuesday, truthful determination is imaginable for different "shakermaker".

Mr Harrison said it is "certainly possible" the set could apical their 2009 gig, adding: "We'll conscionable person to hold and see.

"The main contributing factors are going to beryllium however energetic the assemblage is. If they're jumping on with the music, however precocious oregon however accelerated are they jumping?"