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Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com) 213

Posted by BeauHD from the goal-goal-goal dept.
According to officials in Mexico, an artificial earthquake was reported in Mexico City that was possibly caused by "massive jumps during the goal from the Mexico national soccer team" on Sunday. KABC reports: Hirving Lozano scored the lone goal in the 35th minute, picking up Javier Hernandez's pass inside the penalty area and beating Mesut Ozil before shooting past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from 10 yards. The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. Mexico upset Germany, the defending champion, 1-0. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup. "Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match," reports USA Today. "Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."
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  • Why fly the flags of the shitholes they left? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!

    • Romanticize the past (Score:3, Insightful)

      by PhYrE2k2 ( 806396 )

      People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.

      • Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.

        I'm someone who feels more alive when I don't feel safe and comfortable. That's for example why I love to go outdoor when it's cold and raining. That's why the best time of my life was when I was in the military. As for employment, I'm self-employed. Finally, I'm not sure what you mean with opportunity, but I certainly feel I'm less free now than in the past.

        For me, the [current year] is bland, too authoritarian, and devoid of excitement. For me, the past was really

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!

      Don't forget to list Confederate (civil war loser participation flag) and Nazi (WW2 loser participation flag) flags as disrespectful trashy nation flags that various Americans fly for unknown reasons!

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      by PopeRatzo ( 965947 )

      During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left?

      During NASCAR events, why do so many crackers fly the battle flag of the shithole country that lost the Civil War?

      • Because they romanticize the old Democrat South and wish Grand Kleagle Robert "Sheets" Byrd had successfully run for President...

        • Because they romanticize the old Democrat South and wish Grand Kleagle Robert "Sheets" Byrd had successfully run for President...

          He did, and he won in 2016.

          • Which is why Trump received the Ellis Island Award [snopes.com], alongside fellow winners Rosa Parks and Muhamad Ali, in recognition of his outstanding example of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity. But hey, since it was from the "wrong party", he must now be cast a racist. Because the Left is so tolerant and diverse, right?

            • Which is why Trump received the Ellis Island Award [snopes.com], alongside fellow winners Rosa Parks and Muhamad Ali, in recognition of his outstanding example of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity.

              He's come a long way since 1986, hasn't he?

              Oh, and you might have noticed that Anita Bryant and Hillary Clinton also won the same award, so that should tell you everything you need to know about that award.

              And if you're judging people based on awards, you must have great respect for Barack Obama, wh

              • Yep - it's an award that's given to people who promote, or at least espouse, equality and diversity. But it's SO much easier for you to just charge racist, isn't it? Without anything to back it up. So tolerant of you!

                • Re: (Score:1)

                  by Desler ( 1608317 )

                  But it’s not 1986 anymore and he’s being “charged” with racists statements because that’s what he’s been spewing.

                • Re: (Score:1)

                  by Desler ( 1608317 )

                  Oh and Trump used to also be for socialized health care and was pro-choice. But guess what, he now isn’t. So again, him getting an award 32 years ago says never little about the man of today.

            • But hey, since it was from the "wrong party", he must now be cast a racist.

              It has nothing to do with party affiliation (and many Republicans would suggest that Trump is not one of them), it has to do with the fact that he's a terrible American, person, and president. He's saluting North Korean generals and giving them everything they want while talking about what a great guy Kim is. He's got a policy of separating kids from parents, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's so bad that he's trying to force Democrats to buckle and give him his wall that he can't ot

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by rnturn ( 11092 )

          Wasn't Kleagle one of the Banana Splits?

          Was there a subtext to all those after-school TV shows that I totally missed as a kid? Oh, wait... that was `Fleegle'. Never mind.

      • What the various American Indian nations, why would they even matter they lost.
    • Because despite the shortcomings of whatever country they come from, they are proud of their heritage and they still identify with that country. People have a strong need for identity, and for emigrants, their culture and heritage provides that. Especially in countries that sometimes make them feel less than welcome.

    • Well, consider if it were you. If you're a coal miner from a coal mining family in the US, and all you know how to do is mine coal, then maybe you notice that in the US coal production has fallen off a cliff since the 70s. Since all you know how to do is take rocks out of the ground, you decide to go to China to work in a coal mine there. But you haven't left your nationalistic fervor at home, even when you're there you're wearing your American flag shorts, tank top, and hat since that's the only apparel

  • Fake Headlines (Score:3)

    by Dutch Gun ( 899105 ) on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:45PM (#56800610)

    Is it just me, or has "Fake" now become one of those annoying headline clickbait words?

    Anyhow, it's just a man-made seismic event. And it's not like this hasn't been happening for a very long time. I recall various local sports events triggering nearby seismometers, which seems to be a favorite story in local news. These instruments are incredibly sensitive, and will pick up stadium crowds, construction, excavation blasts, and of course, underground nuclear tests.

    Good for Mexico, I guess, but not sure why this is notable for Slashdot.

    • Re:Fake Headlines (Score:5, Interesting)

      by chispito ( 1870390 ) on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:13PM (#56800978)

      Anyhow, it's just a man-made seismic event. And it's not like this hasn't been happening for a very long time. I recall various local sports events triggering nearby seismometers, which seems to be a favorite story in local news. These instruments are incredibly sensitive, and will pick up stadium crowds, construction, excavation blasts, and of course, underground nuclear tests.

      Good for Mexico, I guess, but not sure why this is notable for Slashdot.

      Those are all events that are localized. This is apparently just... people all over the place in Mexico City, watching on TV. Much different.

  • Southern Ontario is already in a mild earthquake zone. I remember the disconcerting feeling of the office building I was in swaying.

  • What If (XKCD) did it (Score:5, Informative)

    by Eloking ( 877834 ) on Sunday June 17, 2018 @07:22PM (#56800766)

    It was similar to one of the question sent to XKCD : "What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ [xkcd.com]

  • Who edits this place anymore?

    "detected an artificial temblor"

    temblor=tremor in English.

  • Pick a time and say and get millions of people to jump.

  • Nobody in the USA could give a flying rat's ass. :)

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by stooo ( 2202012 )

      >>Nobody in the USA could give a flying rat's ass. :)
      that's not news.
      And we don't care that you don't care.

    • Nobody in the USA could give a flying rat's ass. :)

      . . . and just how many Mexicans live in the USA . . . ?

      If you ask Donald Trump, he would answer:

      "All of them."

  • Obligatory... What If? [xkcd.com]

  • It Looks Random To Me (Score:3)

    by careysub ( 976506 ) on Sunday June 17, 2018 @11:57PM (#56801582)

    It is certainly within the ability of seismometers to detect nearby people jumping, heck they are can detect people walking nearby. So I am prepared to encounter a story about crowd activity being detected by a local station, there is nothing inherently unreasonable about it.

    But the only source for this story appear to be a Spanish language tweet [twitter.com] with three seismic channels snippets displayed without scales on any axis, or other identifying information, and with a red and a green line drawn on it. One of them presumably marking the goal.

    But the two lines look like they intersect the data stream at random points. Neither one seems to mark anything that stands out from the background activity.

    When on-line searching I found absolutely no credible sources coming up, it is all popular media repeating more or less the same thing, but with the "telephone game" effect. Some stories quite magnitudes, but they range from 1 to 3, an energy range 30,000 fold and are probably just speculation reported as fact.

    Until someone comes with an actual source for the measurement and a real magnitude measurement (with someone to back it up) I'm dismissing this as BS.

    • In this article [lanacion.com.ar], they report an acceleration of 37 cm/s2, which is IV on the modified Mercalli scale. I don't know how to interpret those numbers. If there are lots of stories like this in Mexico, then it's likely people are jumping purposely to try to cause an earthquake. A person jumping can shake a house, but it's hard to imagine it's more than standard shaking of traffic, though.

    • the only source for this story appear to be a Spanish language tweet [twitter.com] with three seismic channels snippets displayed without scales on any axis, or other identifying information, and with a red and a green line drawn on it.

      That tweet was from the official account of the seismology department of the Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Research. They also wrote a more detailed explanation, with more clearly-marked images, in their blog [iigea.com].

  • Clearly women in Mexico flashed their shirts enthusiastically when the goal fell, and the wrath from Allah did come immediately! Call Kazem Seddiqi that he was proven right.

  • More Beastquake! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    So it looks like beastquakes [pnsn.org] don't just occur in Seattle!

  • Strong earthquake detected in Japan, one day before Japan plays their first worldcup match.
  • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • My Spanish is still pretty good, but I think I read a 3.5 earthquake detected. My BS meter says a million people couldn't do that.

  • The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup.

    Let's re-write these sentences another way:

    The goal decided the match -- a match Germany was statistically expected to lose.
    The loss meant Germany didn't join the ranks of defending champions to win their opening matches, a feat which has only happened once in the past 16 years in the World Cup.

  • So many new "sudden increase" in medical conditions in populations have been traced to better instruments and more comprehensive screenings. Not new, not sudden.

    Slowly that condition has metastasized and is now spreading from oncology to geology and seismology too, it looks like.

  • ...Mexico sank 1 cm, and the Earth's spin slowed!

    Oh, and 234 million cockroaches were squished!

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