Travis Scott’s raucous show in Milan, with 80,000 jumping spectators, sparked fears of an earthquake on Tuesday, nearly three years after the Astroworld tragedy killed 10 people.
The 33-year-old musician performed at Milan’s La Maura open-air Hippodrome as part of his Utopia: Circus Maximus tour, with stunning images and videos showing thousands of fans surrounding the stage.
However, social media posts from the Milan area showed people reported feeling tremors on the same night as the concert, but no earthquakes were recorded at Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, according to the Italian news site. The messenger.
Scott took to Instagram to brag about the concert, writing: ‘LAST NIGHT WAS A DREAM.
‘NO, THIS IS NOT A FESTIVAL. THIS IS A TOUR SHOW.
Travis Scott’s raucous show in Milan, with 80,000 jumping spectators, sparked fears of an earthquake on Tuesday, nearly three years after the Astroworld tragedy killed 10 people.
The 33-year-old musician performed at Milan’s La Maura open-air Hippodrome as part of his Utopia: Circus Maximus tour, with stunning images and videos showing thousands of fans surrounding the stage.
However, social media posts from the Milan area showed people reported feeling tremors on the same night as the concert, but no earthquakes were recorded at Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, according to Italian news site Il Messaggero.
‘IN STROMBERG’S WORDS. MILAN, YOU OWE ME NOTHING. YOU GAVE US THE $80,000 YOU PAID. CIRCUS MAXIMUS.’
The tour, named after her fourth studio album Utopia, which was the best-selling hip-hop album of 2023, has been described as “an unparalleled audio-visual experience.”
A crowd surge at his November 5, 2021 concert in Houston killed 10 festival-goers.
The dead, whose ages ranged from 9 to 27, died of compression asphyxiawhat one expert compared to being crushed by a car.
Attorneys for the victims alleged in the lawsuits that the deaths and hundreds of injuries at the concert were caused by negligent planning and a lack of concern for the event’s capacity and safety.
Scott, promoter Live Nation and the other defendants denied the allegations, saying safety was their primary 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 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 chaos erupted after Scott took the stage to perform.
The 10 Astroworld fatalities: (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 Pena, 23; and Ezra Blount, 9
In the interview, Scott blamed his “ear-line” for not urging him to stop the show sooner, and claimed he was not aware of or responsible for the fatal stampede and crushing of the crowd.
Scott said he is “1,000 percent” sure he did everything he could to prevent the tragedy and claims he did not hear the screams and cries for help as the crowd spiraled out of control.
“Things happen, you know, and it’s been a time like that, and I’m just trying to figure things out,” he said when asked why he was breaking his silence.
“My heart wasn’t in it to be the villain; it was in it to be my hometown hero.”
Charlemagne also asked Scott if his encouragement of ‘rage’ was to blame, referring to the mosh pit-like concert culture.
“Anger is just the experience of having fun,” Scott said, adding that anger is an incentive 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 22-23, 2023 at Lumen Field in Seattle, one expert said.
The 33-year-old singer has been breaking records with her The Eras Tour, in which she performs a whopping 44 songs a night, and the star’s fans are making the earth move, according to Western Washington University geology professor and seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach.
Scott faced a series of civil lawsuits following the tragedy, but a grand jury declined to indict him and he has consistently denied responsibility for the mayhem.
Speaking to CNNCaplan-Auerbach said:I put together the data from both nights of the concert and quickly realized that it was clearly the same pattern of signals. If I overlay them, they are almost identical.
Comparing Swift’s concert to 2011’s Beast Quake, when Seattle Seahawks fans set a new noise record with their cheers and stomps for Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch, Caplan-Auerbach added: “The cheers after a touchdown last a couple of seconds, but they eventually die down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where the beat controlled the behavior.
“The music, the speakers, the rhythm. All that energy can reach down to the ground and shake it.”
