How Samuel Eto’o’s Goals Set Off an Earthquake in 2006

A graduate student using seismometers to trace earthquake activity in Cameroon was apparently mystified by eight unexplained squiggles on his chart in late January and early February of 2006, which occurred simultaneously around the entire country. Being a good student, Garrett Euler got his girlfriend to do some Googling and she found the mysterious squiggles [.