I have. In fact, I've lined the entire tribe up a few times and it didn't seem to help. However, shortly after posting this I discovered by accident that getting the entire tribe into the pool for a party increases the energy substantially.
All I was doing was getting the annoying yellow masks to go back to their campground for a while. I've now been able to hit them a couple of times with the earthquake so hopefully they'll convert soon.
Thanks for your help.