AC/DC cause the ground to shake at first Australian concert in a decade, scientist confirms
AC/DC caused the ground to shake upon their return to Australia on November 12th.
After a decade away, AC/DC finally returned home to Australia for a concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which caused a seismic reaction that could be felt from miles away.
Adam Pascale, the chief scientist at the Seismology Research Centre, confirmed that the concert registered in the two to five range on the hertz register at his company’s office in Richmond, which is located over three kilometres from the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
A number of that magnitude on the hertz scale is enough to make the ground shake, with Pascale noting to the Australian Broadcast Corporation, “The sound waves that people were experiencing nearby and feeling something through their bodies, that’s the equivalent to what our seismographs feel.”
He also explained of the process, “We’re picking up the ground motion, we’re not picking up the sound from the air. So you’ve got speakers on the ground pumping out vibrations and that gets transmitted through the ground, but also the crowd jumping up and down is feeding energy into the ground.”
Pascale then stated that it is the activity of the crowd that has the biggest part in making the ground shake rather than the music, adding, “If everyone’s sort of bouncing in unison, it tends to amplify the signal so we can pick it up a little bit better.”
During their show on November 12th in Melbourne, AC/DC dusted off their classic track ‘Jailbreak’ for the first time since 1991 as a treat for the Aussie crowd.
The classic rock act are set to return to Melbourne for another show at the MCG on November 16th before two dates at the Accord Stadium in Sydney, and headlining the BP Adelaide Grand Final later this month.
Their return to Australia will conclude in December with a pair of concerts at the Optus Stadium in Perth and two shows at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
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