BBC 6分钟英语 泰勒·斯威夫特的粉丝们是否引发了地震

6 min English from BBC learning english dot com.

Hello, this is Six Men English from BBC Learning English.

I'm l and I'm Georgie. If you're a Swiftie, that's a fan of the pop star Taylor Swift.

Her music Rocks your world. I like that phrase Rock your world fell.

It

means that something makes you life enjoyable, right?

Well, yes, but actually, no, georgie, I mean tailors with literally rocks the world.

At a recent concert in Edinburgh, as part of Taylor swift's ears Tour, her fan's energetic dancing literally moved the earth with seismic activity, usually associated with earthquakes detected 4 mi away.

Yes, it's hard to believe, but in this program, we'll be hearing about the swift quake, a powerful force like an earthquake, coming not from nature, but from a pop concert.

And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

Great. But 1st, I have a question for you, georgie.

Actually, taylor Swift Edinburgh show wasn't the 1st music concert to trigger seismic waves.

In 1992, the band Madness caused two earthquakes that saw local residents evacuated from their homes.

But which London venue did the concert take place?

Was it a Hyde Park, B the Royal Albert Hall, or C Finnery Park?

I'll guess the concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall.

OK, georgie, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the program.

Following taylors with Edinburgh concert, seismlogist Emma Greenov and James Panton from Cardiff University wanted to see if the same thing would happen at tailor's concert in Cardiff.

Seismologists are scientists who study earthquakes and seismic waves.

Emma and James set up their equipment to monitor and record ground motion as the concert got started, as James explains here to Marney Chesterton, presenter of BBC Radio Four program Inside science, tell me about the peak on this graph that you're seeing, what that actually corresponds to.

In the top graph of the red wiggly line, we're looking at the ground velocity in essentially meters per 2nd.

So that's what the lost Kingdom of ground is vibrating up And so this is literally people stamping up and down.

Yes, so this is all of the energy combined from the 73000 people in the stadium, jumping in unison and stamping in unison.

James The British Geological Survey recorded 23.4 nm.

Of movement in Edinburgh. What does that actually mean?

So what that means is that they recorded the ground flexing up and down by a distance of 23 nm.

James's equipment recorded seismic movement. When Taylor Swift started to sing her hit song, cruel Summer, created a peak, the highest point in the graph which james's machine was drawing.

The peak was made by thousands of Swifties jumping up and down in unison together, and at the same time, creating something like a mini earthquake.

The seismologist measured a ground movement of 23 nm.

That may not sound much, but remember, this is the Earth itself actually flexing or bending without breaking.

So the ground is shaking, music is blasting, and thousands of fans are dancing.

But does this qualify as an earthquake?

Scientifically speaking? Here's James Panton and Marney Chesterton again for BBC Radio Force Inside Science.

James, impressive as this is to see coming up on your seismograph, this is not the same leak, really, as an earthquake.

No, definitely not. There have been some people who have tried to convert the energy output from concerts into a local magnitude scale to make it comparable to an earthquake, and when that's happened, we find magnitudes that are generally less than one.

Sadly, the answer to George s question is no.

The Taylor Swift concert wasn't technically an earthquake.

Marney says the concert was not in the same league an idiom, meaning not nearly as good or important as something else.

Yes, the energy created by the music, sound waves and thousands of fans jumping, did move the earth, but not in a way that's comparable or similar to a real earthquake.

By definition, an earthquake must break the earth's crust and is caused by either the movement of tectonic plates or of volcano.

Officially, taylor Swift didn't cause an earthquake, but for the Swifties, it probably felt like one.

All of which brings us back to my question Georgie, I asked you about another earth shattering

concert involving the British band

Madness, but where in London did the show take place?

And I guessed it was at the Royal Albert Hall, which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid, georgie.

In

fact, the concert happened in finnsby Park.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt in this program, starting with the phrase Rock your world, meaning that someone or something has a positive effect on you, making your

life enjoyable. A peak is the highest point of something, when things happen in unison, they happen together at the same time.

To flex means to bend without breaking.

If you say something is not in the same league as something else, you mean it's no in here is good or important?

And finally, the adjective comparable means similar in size, amount or in quality.

Once again, our 6 min are up, but remember to join us again next time for more trending topics and useful vocabularys here at Six Minute English.

Goodbye for now. Bye 6 min English from BBC learning english dot com.

扫码查看听力音频