The Swift Quake

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is a re-airing of our award-winning episode The Swift Quake! This episode won the AAAS Kavli Silver Medal Award for excellence in Children's Science News, as well as a Signal Award for kid's podcasts. Give it a listen! How do you think a stadium full of Taylor Swift fans would shake the earth? Tumble enters the Swiftiverse with Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, the scientist who discovered the “Swift Quake” - a type of earthquake created by fans at Taylor Swift concerts. Find out who really “shakes it off” - when it comes to music and seismic energy. If you'd like to support Tumble, there's more than one way to do it! You can join our Patreon and get birthday shout outs if you support us at the $5 level or higher. You can also consider donating to our new non-profit organization, Tumble Education Inc.! Our aim is to support freely accessible, high quality educational audio content. Just go donate here.

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0:00.0	Hey, Tumble listeners, Marshall here.
0:04.0	Lindsay and I are off this week for Thanksgiving, and if your family is celebrating
0:08.5	Thanksgiving, too, we hope you have a great time and eat plenty of turkey and pie and
0:13.3	all the wonderful things that people eat this time of year.
0:16.7	To make your Thanksgiving drive exciting, we have one of our favorite episodes from
0:20.4	season 9, The Swift Quake, which is honestly one of my favorite episodes of all time.
0:26.1	It recently won both a Signal Award and the AAAAS Cawberley Science Journalism Award
0:31.3	for Children's Science News.
0:33.2	We're so honored for both of these awards and so grateful for all of your support along the way.
0:38.6	We hope you enjoy this award-winning episode, The Swift Quake.
0:46.3	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:48.1	And I'm Marshall.
0:48.9	Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:52.5	It's not just earthquakes that shake the earth.
0:55.2	People can too, especially Taylor Swift fan.
0:59.5	Wait.
1:01.1	Is this episode about Swifties creating earthquakes?
1:04.4	It's about how the Earth's surface moves and the power of an enthusiastic crowd.
1:10.1	We're about to hear the story of one scientist's quest to find out who really shakes it off.
1:19.7	Okay, I'm really curious where this is going to go.
1:23.2	Did you just come up with an excuse to do an episode about Taylor Swift?
1:26.9	Look, I'm a reporter, and I just follow a good story where it leads.
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