Garth Brooks’ Recent Baton Rouge Performance Registered as an Earthquake

At Garth Brooks’ most recent performance at Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium, his first time playing in Baton Rouge in 24 years, the ground literally shook.

A small earthquake was captured by LSU’s seismograph, caused by the stomping, thumping, and singing from Brooks and his crowd of fans. Fittingly enough, the song Brooks was performing during the minor quake was, in fact, “Callin’ Baton Rouge.”

This is the second time in over three decades that the stadium registered a tremor from cheering fans, the first being when LSU had a narrow victory over Auburn University with two minutes left in a 1988 football game.

“The noise level in the stadium was insane!” a concertgoer wrote on Facebook. “I’ve seen Garth before but it wasn’t like this! He is such a great entertainer. It was my 11 year old son’s first concert and he can’t stop talking about it.”

That moment in the concert ended up being so loud that many fans’ Apple Watches alerted them that “sound levels hit 95 decibels” and that “just 10 minutes at this level” would cause temporary hearing loss.

Experience just a small fraction of Brooks’ earth-shaking performance on the country star’s Twitter.

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