AC/DC's return to the stage in Australia after a decade was powerful enough to register on earthquake monitoring equipment.

The Thunderstruck rockers performed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday, marking their first Australian concert since 2015.

The show formed part of their PWR UP tour and drew tens of thousands of fans. The combination of high-volume sound systems and crowd movement generated ground vibrations of two to five hertz, as recorded by the Seismology Research Centre, located more than three kilometres away.

Adam Pascale, chief scientist at the centre, explained how the concert's physical impact was recorded.

He said: "The sound waves that people were experiencing nearby and feeling something through their bodies, that's the equivalent to what our seismographs fe

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