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Leicester City Celebrations Caused Earthquake

Updated on March 18, 2016

By kalkilby, Contributor for Soccerjury

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High-flying Leicester City have been responsible for creating shock-waves in the Premier League already this season. 

But earthquakes? Because for the first time ever in the UK, a goal celebration has been recorded as a minor "earthquake" .

The tremor was attributed by the University of Leicester to a "sudden energy release" from jubilant Foxes fans, after Leonardo Ulloa netted his last-gasp winner against Norwich at the King Power Stadium in February, 

Leo Ulloa's winner against Norwich was certainly acknowledged by the fans (ESPN)

Fittingly the event has been named the "Vardy Quake" after the league's top-scorer Jamie Vardy.

The seismometer was installed at a nearby school 500m from the stadium, by the university's geology students and the British Geological Survey (BGS), as part of a study to measure earthquakes worldwide. 

Paul Denton, a seismologist from the BGS, said the team wondered if football fans would affect the detectors.

He said: "The seismometers were actually closer to the Leicester Tigers [rugby] ground and so we were expecting stronger signals from there but we can't find anything. It says something about the nature of football, it's so tense and then we get four or five seconds of unexpected magic."

Leicester City's recent exploits have rocked more than the footballing world (Twitter)

Ulloa's 89th winner measured 0.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. The geology students will continue to monitor Foxes home matches on a live Twitter account (@VardyQuake). 

But the million dollar question is if Leicester do win the league - just how big a reading will the Vardy Quake register? 

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