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The '''Earthquake Game''' was a [[college football]] game in which the crowd reaction after an important play registered on a [[seismograph]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Footneauxts of ’88|publisher=The War Eagle Reader|url=https://thewareaglereader.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/footneauxts-of-88/|accessdatetitle=2014What really happened at the Auburn-05LSU ‘Earthquake Game’?|last=Henderson|first=Jeremy|date=September 17, 2012|website=The War Eagle Reader|url-15status=live|accessdate=September 4, 2019}}</ref> Played in front of a crowd of 79,431 at [[Louisiana State University]]'s [[Tiger Stadium (LSU)|Tiger Stadium]] on October 8, 1988, the [[LSU Tigers football|LSU Tigers]] upset No. 4 [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]] 7–6.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=164367|title=After 20 Years, LSU-Auburn Game Still An Earthshaking Experience|publisherlast=theadvocate.comCalongne|urlfirst=http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLIDKristine|date=164367September 17, 2008|accessdatewebsite=2014-05[[LSU Tigers]]|url-status=live|accessdate=May 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=25 years later, former Tigers relive "Earthquake Game"|publisher=wbrz.com|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/25-years-later-former-tigers-relive-earthquake-game-/|accessdatetitle=201425 years later, former Tigers relive "Earthquake Game"|website=[[WBRZ-05TV]]|url-status=live|accessdate=May 15, 2014}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=September 2019}}

The game pitted [[Southeastern Conference]] rivals [[1988 Auburn Tigers football team|Auburn]] and [[1988 LSU Tigers football team|LSU]] and was one of the more notable games in the [[Auburn–LSU football rivalry]].<ref>{{cite web| title=The day the Earth trembled in Tiger Stadium's temblor|publisher=lsusports.net|url=http://theadvocate.com/sports/7104469-32/1988-lsu-auburn-game-shook-earth|title=The day the Earth trembled in Tiger Stadium's temblor|website=[[The_Advocate_(Louisiana)|The Advocate]]|accessdate=2014-05-May 15, 2014}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=September 2019}} Along with national rankings, the game also proved to be of great significance to that season's eventual SEC title. The stadium was filled to capacity and the game was being broadcast on [[ESPN]].

The game's name resulted from the reaction of the crowd after the final pass, which registered as an earthquake by a [[Seismometer|seismograph]] located in LSU’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex around {{convert|1000|ft|m|0}} from the stadium. The seismograph reading was discovered the morning after the game by LSU seismologist Don Stevenson and student worker Riley Milner. Word of the seismograph reading reached ''[[The Daily Reveille]]'' and spread to the local media.<ref name="More to Earthquake Game">[http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/09/theres_more_to_lsus_earthquake.html There's more to LSU's Earthquake Game than Hodson-to-Fuller]. ''[[The Times-Picayune]]''.</ref>{{Dead link|date=September 2019}} Stevenson submitted the reading to the [[Louisiana Geological Survey]] to have it preserved. Stevenson displayed a copy of the reading on his office window on the LSU campus that was later observed by an ESPN news crew, which was on campus doing a story sometime prior to when Stevenson left LSU in the summer of 1991. The news crew decided to do a piece on what they dubbed "The Earthquake Game." This news story helped to add more attention to the event.<ref>{{cite web|titlename=Footneauxts":0" of ’88|publisher=The War Eagle Reader|url=https://thewareaglereader.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/footneauxts-of-88/|accessdate=2014-05-15}}</ref>