Scotland Fans Caused 'small Earthquake' In World Cup Qualifier Win

The Tartan Army shook nan world arsenic they celebrated Scotland's men qualifying for a first World Cup successful 28 years.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded nan balanced to an "extremely mini earthquake" aft Kenny McLean lobbed Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to unafraid a 4-2 win.

A 2nd important magnitude of seismic activity came moments later erstwhile nan last whistle sounded connected Wednesday night.

Readings were recorded astatine nan BGS position astatine Glasgow Geothermal Observatory successful Dalmarnock – astir 2km (1.2 miles) from Hampden Park.

A mini surge was besides detected astir nan clip Kieran Tierney coiled successful Scotland's third, 3 minutes into wounded time.

However, nan BGS said nan main highest of activity came betwixt 21:48 and 21:50 – correct arsenic McLean scored from nan halfway line.

An charismatic attendance of 49,587 was recorded astatine nan game.

The BGS said nan activity registered betwixt magnitude -1 and zero connected nan Richter Scale and produced nan balanced of 200kW of power, capable to powerfulness betwixt 25 and 40 car batteries.

It is besides nan aforesaid arsenic blasting a shot astatine astir 900 m/s (2,013 mph).

That is astir 15 times faster than nan fastest a shot has ever been struck, thought to beryllium astir 131.2 mph (58 m/s) by nan Brazilian defender Ronny Heberson successful Sporting Club de Portugal's triumph complete Naval successful 2007.

Taylor Swift fans were besides recorded arsenic making nan world move during past summer's trio of concerts astatine Murrayfield Stadium successful Edinburgh.

But nan BGS said it was incapable to straight comparison nan 2 events owed to "different tract conditions".

The BGS said astir 300 people occurring earthquakes hap successful nan UK each year, but only astir 30 are of important powerfulness to beryllium felt by people.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was felt successful homes crossed Perthshire past month.