{"id":41693,"date":"2025-11-21T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-fans-shook-the-earth-in-win-over-denmark\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:13:31","slug":"scotland-fans-shook-the-earth-in-win-over-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-fans-shook-the-earth-in-win-over-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland fans shook the earth in win over Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\"SNSSNS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Scotland fans shook the earth after Kenny McLean scored the fourth goal against Denmark<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n

The Tartan Army shook the earth as they celebrated Scotland’s men qualifying for a first World Cup in 28 years.<\/p>\n

The British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded the equivalent to an “extremely small earthquake” after Kenny McLean lobbed Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to secure a 4-2 win.<\/p>\n

A second significant amount of seismic activity came moments later when the final whistle sounded on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Readings were recorded at the BGS station at Glasgow Geothermal Observatory in Dalmarnock \u2013 about 2km (1.2 miles) from Hampden Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

A small surge was also detected around the time Kieran Tierney curled in Scotland’s third, three minutes into injury time.<\/p>\n

However, the BGS said the main peak of activity came between 21:48 and 21:50 \u2013 right as McLean scored from the halfway line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\"BritishBritish Geological Survey<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The BGS recorded surges of seismic activity after the fourth goal and again after the final whistle<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n

An official attendance of 49,587 was recorded at the game.<\/p>\n

The BGS said the activity registered between magnitude -1 and zero on the Richter Scale and produced the equivalent of 200kW of power, enough to power between 25 and 40 car batteries.<\/p>\n

It is also the same as blasting a football at about 900 m\/s (2,013 mph).<\/p>\n

That is about 15 times faster than the fastest a ball has ever been struck, thought to be about 131.2 mph (58 m\/s) by the Brazilian defender Ronny Heberson in Sporting Club de Portugal’s win over Naval in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\"SNSSNS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Scotland players celebrate with Kenny McLean after the final goal of the 4-2 win<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\n

Taylor Swift fans were also recorded as making the earth move<\/a> during last summer’s trio of concerts at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

But the BGS said it was unable to directly compare the two events due to “different site conditions”.<\/p>\n

The BGS said about 300 naturally occurring earthquakes happen in the UK every year, but only about 30 are of significant power to be felt by people.<\/p>\n

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in homes across Perthshire<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SNS Scotland fans shook the earth after Kenny McLean scored the fourth goal against Denmark The Tartan Army shook the earth as they celebrated Scotland’s men qualifying for a first World Cup in 28 years. The British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded the equivalent to an “extremely small earthquake” after Kenny McLean lobbed Denmark goalkeeper Kasper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[6906,3445,166,688,301,1186],"class_list":["post-41693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-denmark","tag-earth","tag-fans","tag-scotland","tag-shook","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41695,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions\/41695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}