Lumen Field
Open-air NFL stadium built on reclaimed tideflats, famous for a crowd roar that once registered as an earthquake.
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This guide to Lumen Field in Seattle rebuilds the fourth quarter of a January two thousand eleven playoff game against the New Orleans Saints, when running back Marshawn Lynch broke nine tackles on a sixty-seven-yard touchdown run. It follows what sixty-eight thousand fans did in response, loud enough that a nearby seismic station logged a real tremor, and how reporters coined the nickname Beast Quake, stitching it to Lynch's own. It also details the more than two thousand pilings sunk fifty to seventy feet into the stadium's reclaimed tideflat foundation below Puget Sound.
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