FootyQuakes at Leicester City

It has long been known that large crowds can generate seismic signals if they all move together, this can be dancing to a common  beat (eg the Ska band Madness at the Reading Festival)  or crowds at sporting fixtures responding to events on the pitch (eg the Seattle Seahawks and their BeastQuakes)

In Leicester during the 2015-2016 football season Leicester were performing beyond all expectations, the city was buzzing with excitement as Leicester reached the halfway point of the season as top of eth English premier League.   At this point students from Leicester University (wth help from the British Geological Survey) started an outreach project at a city centre primary school, Hazel Road, about 500m from the Leicester football ground, the King Power stadium.

Over the course of the next few months Leicester went on to win the Premiership and the students from Leicester University and Hazel road primary school were there all along the way monitoring the seismic vibrations, named @vardyquakes after Leicester's star striker Jamie Vardy.

The project continues in 2017, Leicester have not matched their cup winning form but the home games are always well attended.  

Date
Opponent
Score
Image
Data file
20 August
Arsenal
0-0
 NA
NA 
27 August
Swansea
2-1
 NA
NA 
17 September
Burnley
3-0
 NA
 NA
20 September
Chelsea
2-4
 NA
 NA
27 September
FC Porto
1-0
 NA
 NA
02 October
Southampton
0-0
 NA
 NA
18 October
FC Copenhagen
1-0
 NA
 NA
22 October
Crystal Palace
3-1
 NA
 NA
06 November
West Brom
1-2

 .sac data file
22 November
Club Brugge
2-1


 NA
26 November
Middlesbrough
2-2


.sac
10 December
Man City
4-2


 .sac
26 December
Everton
0-2
 NA
 NA
31 December
West Ham
1-0
 NA
 NA
14 January
Chelsea
0-3


 .sac
05 February
Man Utd
0-3


 .sac
08 February
Derby
3-1


 .sac
27 February
Liverpool
3-1


 .sac
04 March
Hull City
3-1


 .sac
14 March
Sevilla



01 April
Stoke City



04 April
Sunderland



23 April
Tottenham



06 May
Watford



21 May
Bournemouth




In the 2016-17 season the seismometer at Hazel road school has been replaced with a simple homebuilt "lego" seismometer built out of lego .

homemade "lego" seismometer at Hazel Road Primary school 

The new lego seismometer works very well for recording football quakes ... but the instrument also does a great job of recording  the P waves from distant arthquakes 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

lego seismometer

Image
Building a lego seismometer Bill of materials Bricks 4 x 2x3brick 2 x 2x4 brick 2 x 1x12 brick 2 x 1x10 brick 2 x 1x8 brick 2 x 1x2 brick 1 x 2x8 brick 1 x 1x1 brick plates 4 x 2x6 plate 3 x 2x10 plate 4 x 1x6 plate 2 x 2x4 plate 2 x 2x3 plate 4 x 1x2 plate 2 x 2x2 plate 2 x 1x1 plate 2 x 4x6 plate 2 x 1x4 plate smooth plates 4 x 1x2 smooth plates Non-lego components 1 x spring steel leaf spring (25mm x 0.152mm x 150mm) 1 x 14mm diameter magnet 1 x 5mm diameter magnet 2 x 20mm x12mm adhesive tape (eg kaptan 0.03mm, or packing tape ) 1 x coil (1200turn  22mm id 10mm high) 1 x spacer 0.5mm thick for assembly 1 x 3mm thick 50x50mm square steel washer Instructions... there are two seperate lego parts which are hinged together with the thin tape acting as weak flexures.  The leaf spring is clamped between adjacent lego pieces when making the hinge piece, use a strip of card or plastic 0.5mm thick as a spacer to hold the two halves of ...
Read more

Barnsley Tyke quakes

Image
In the 2019-20 football season DentonSeismo in collaboration with Sky Bet installed seismic monitoring stations at a number of championship football stadiums in order to monitor the crowd response to home goals.    Whose goal will get the greatest response Barnsley F.C.
Read more

Getting data from a BBC:microbit

Image
Since the BBC:microbit has an accelerometer chip on it it seems only natural to turn it into the heart of an educational seismometer. microbit accelerometer data recorded by jAmaseis datalogging software So what steps need to be done 1) install the mbed serial driver to connect your microbit to your (windows) computer using a USB lead 2) write some code to output acceleration data to the serial line on the microbit 3) make sure you have  suitable microbit device file for jamaseis 4) connect it all together In detail 1) install the mbed serial driver for windows see   https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Windows-serial-configuration     This will create a virtual serial COM port on your computer... you can check this by looking at Computer...properties...device manager (windows7) On my computer the microbit appears as COM23  2) write some code to output acceleration data to the serial line..  you can do this in a browser on the mic...
Read more