Leicester City's unlikely charge to the Premier League title is not only sending shockwaves through football but also causing real-life earthquakes.A group of students at the University of Leicester installed earthquake-monitoring equipment at a primary school near the King Power Stadium and found goal celebrations were registering on the Richter scale.
Leonardo Ulloa's late winner against Norwich City in February registering a magnitude of 0.3, while both goals in the 2-2 draw with West Brom registered 0.1 as the Foxes held on to their lead at the top.
The students have since set up a dedicated Twitter account, named @VardyQuake, with the aim of monitoring Leicester's home games for the remainder of the season.
"A few days after we installed the equipment at the school and were analysing data collected, we noticed large peaks on the seismogram during football matches being held in the stadium nearby," student Richard Hoyle said.
"A closer look showed us there was a strong correlation between the exact time Leicester scored at home and the occurrence of the large seismic signals.
"We concluded that our equipment was actually measuring small earthquakes produced by the sudden energy release by the cheering Leicester fans celebrating at the moment a goal was scored."
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