Sep 5, 2024 - News

Ed Sheeran, Macklemore fans outshake "Swift Quake" in Seattle

Melissa Santos

Taylor Swift dressed in evening wear places a gloved hand under Ed Sheeran's chin while looking over her shoulder at the camera, while Sheeran smiles. — Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift at this year's Grammys. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Taylor Swift no longer holds the honor of having caused the most seismic activity at Seattle's Lumen Field, per researchers at Western Washington University.

Catch up quick: Fans at Swift's Eras Tour concert last July made the ground move more than the "Beast Quake" that followed a Marshawn Lynch touchdown in 2011, WWU geology professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach said after Swift's 2023 performance.

But the ground under the stadium shook even harder last August, when Ed Sheeran brought Seattle rapper Macklemore onstage for a performance of "Can't Hold Us," Caplan-Auerbach recently told KING 5.

What they're saying: "Ed Sheeran is not someone who I associate with rampant crazy crowd behavior," Caplan-Auerbach told the station.

"However, he did bring Macklemore onstage. So here you have a local artist playing "Can't Hold Us," which is a very jumpy song and a very high energy song, and the crowd responded appropriately, and it's definitively the strongest shaking we saw."

Yes, but: Swift fans still get points for stamina. They caused the longest prolonged seismic activity, after 3.5 straight hours of singing and jumping, per KING 5.

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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore fans outshake "Swift Quake" in Seattle

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