It’s been that kind of season for the Leicester City soccer team, a club that has never done much of anything but now leads the English Premier League by five points with nine matches to play.

Leicester (pronounced “LESter” by the English, despite all those other letters) looked a cinch to be relegated a year ago, saved themselves with a fast finish and have been getting the job done pretty much nonstop this season (only three defeats in 29 matches), much to the shock of those conditioned to seeing the same old four or five clubs win the league. The four or five clubs who are now looking up at City at the top of the standings.

Leicester City joined the Football League in 1894 but are chasing their first top-division title.

City was an easy choice for relegation, ahead of this season, and the club surviving would be news.

Winning the league would be an upset on the order of Wake Forest winning a college football national championship. It would be one of the biggest stories in English football in decades.

Things have been rocking in the east Midlands city of about 340,000 — to the point that geologists see movement on the Richter scale.

When Leicester City has done something good, the stamping and jumping by their fans in King Power Stadium has been so intense, it has registered as earthquakes, according to local geologists.

If you did not follow the link, a group of geology students placed sensors near to the Leicester home ground, and when City scored in the 89th minute to defeat Norwich 1-0, the tumult registered as an earthquake of 0.3 magnitude.

Granted, a temblor that slight would not be felt by anyone, not even the English, who pretty much live in an earthquake-free zone. But it is more than nothing, and would seem to suggest the 32,000 in the stadium were rocking out.

More background.

Students from the city of Leeds were studying geology at the University of Leicester and one noticed “large peaks on the seismogram during football matches being held in the stadium”.

The student added: “A closer look showed us there was a strong correlation between the exact time Leicester scored at home and the occurrence of the large seismic signals. We concluded our equipment was measuring small earthquakes produced by the sudden energy release by the cheering Leicester fans celebrating at the moment a goal was scored.”

And now we have scientific proof.

Making the earth move like that … Hemingway would be proud.