An official attendance of 49,587 was recorded at the game.

The BGS said the activity registered between magnitude -1 and zero on the Richter Scale and produced the equivalent of 200kW of power, enough to power between 25 and 40 car batteries.

It is also the same as blasting a football at about 900 m/s (2,013 mph).

That is about 15 times faster than the fastest a ball has ever been struck, thought to be about 131.2 mph (58 m/s) by the Brazilian defender Ronny Heberson in Sporting Club de Portugal’s win over Naval in 2007.