Travis Scott's raucous Milan show with 80,000 jumping fans sparks EARTHQUAKE fears - three years after Astroworld tragedy killed 10 people
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Travis Scott's raucous Milan show with 80.000 jumping fans in attendance sparked earthquake fears on Tuesday - almost three years after the Astroworld tragedy killed 10 people.
The musician, 33, performed at Milan’s outdoor La Maura Hippodrome as part of his Utopia: Circus Maximus tour - with striking pictures and video showing thousands of fans surrounding the stage.
However, social media posts from the Milan area saw people report feeling tremors on the same night of the concert -, but no quakes were recorded at Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, according to the Italian news site Il Messaggero.
Scott took to Instagram to boast about the concert, writing: 'LAST NIGHT WAS A DREAM.
'NO THIS ISNT FESTIVAL. THIS A SHOW ON THE TOUR.
Travis Scott 's raucous Milan show with 80.000 jumping fans in attendance sparked earthquake fears on Tuesday - almost three years after the Astroworld tragedy killed 10 people
The musician, 33, performed at Milan’s outdoor La Maura Hippodrome as part of his Utopia: Circus Maximus tour - with striking pictures and video showing thousands of fans surrounding the stage
However, social media posts from the Milan area saw people report feeling tremors on the same night of the concert -, but no quakes were recorded at Italy ’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, according to the Italian news site Il Messaggero
'IN THE WORDS OF STROMBERG. MILAN YALL OWE ME NOTHING. YALL GAVE YALL ALL 80k OF YALL HAD THE BEST TIME EVER. CIRCUS MAXIMUS.'
Named after his fourth studio album Utopia, which was the biggest-selling hip-hop released of 2023, the tour has been described as 'an unparalleled audiovisual experience'.
A crowd surge at his November 5, 2021, concert in Houston killed 10 festivalgoers.
Those killed, who ranged in age from 9 to 27, died from compression asphyxia, which an expert likened to being crushed by a car.
Lawyers for the victims alleged in lawsuits that the deaths and hundreds of injuries at the concert were caused by negligent planning and a lack of concern over capacity and safety at the event.
Scott, promoter Live Nation, and the others who were sued have denied these claims, saying safety was their top concern. They said what happened could not have been foreseen. The final lawsuit was settled last month.
After a police investigation, a grand jury declined to indict Scott, along with five others connected to the festival.
In December 2021, speaking out about the tragedy Scott sat down with podcaster Charlemagne Tha God for an interview
Approximately 50,000 people attended the sold-out Astroworld Festival at NRG Park in November 2021. Witnesses said the chaos broke out after Scott took the stage to perform
The 10 Astroworld fatal victims - (clockwise) Madison Dubiski, 23; John Hilgert, 14; Bharti Shahani, 22; Axel Acosta, 21; Brianna Rodriguez, 16; Mirza Baig, 27; Franco Patino, 21; Jacob Jurinek, 21; Rodolfo Angel Peña, 23; and Ezra Blount, 9
In the interview, Scott blamed his 'in-ear' person for not urging him to stop the show sooner, and claimed that he wasn't aware of or responsible for the fatal stampede and crowd crush
Scott said that he is '1000 percent' certain he did everything he could have to prevent the tragedy, and claims he didn't hear the screams and cries for help as the crowd went out of control.
'Things happen, you know, and it's just been such a time, and I'm just trying to just really figure things out,' he said when asked why he was breaking his silence.
'My heart wasn’t there to be the villain—I was there to be a hometown hero.'
Charlemagne also asked Scott whether his encouragement of 'raging' was to blame, referring to the concert culture similar to mosh pits.
'Raging just the experience of having fun,' Scott claimed, adding that raging was an inducement to 'help others and love each other.'
Taylor Swift fans caused the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake with their raucous dancing at her shows on July 22nd and 23rd 2023 at Seattle’s Lumen Field, an expert has claimed.
The songstress, 33, has been breaking records with her The Eras Tour - which sees her belt out a whopping 44 songs a night - with the star's fans making the earth move, according to Western Washington University geology professor and seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach.
Scott faced a slew of civil suits following the tragedy, but a grand jury declined to indict him and he has consistently denied responsibility for the chaos
Speaking to CNN, Caplan-Auerbach said: 'I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals. If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.'
Comparing Swift's concert to 2011's Beast Quake when Seattle Seahawk fans set a new noise record with their cheers and stomps for Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch, Caplan-Auerbach added: 'Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior.
'The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.'
