mysterious shaking in the area

[Opal storm]

I heard my windows rattling this evening but didn't think anything of it, but just now I saw this on the news and I am not the only one who felt it.They think it may have been a sonic boom.

FROM WEAR CHANNEL 3

A nerve rattling.... and home rattling evening for many folks in the viewing area tonight.
We received many calls just after 6:30pm tonight.... people reporting their windows, doors.... and in some cases.... their entire homes had been given quite a shake.

Those calls came from Fairhope, Alabama To Molino, Florida... And just about everywhere in between.

There is a real-time map from the U-S Geological Survey... Indicating no earthquakes in the area at all.

There are also no reports of any explosions, serious damage, or injury.

The National Weather Service In Mobile says, based on where the reports of rattling came from.... and the type of tremors felt... It was probably a sonic boom from a military aircraft.

John Murphy with the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office says tonight's event was very similar to sonic booms in the past.

A sonic boom, of course, is the sound and shock-wave of a plane breaking the sound barrier.

We've contacted the area's military bases.... none could confirm what the event was.

http://www.wear3.com/

[wxmann_91]

Something similar happened a few months ago here. I was in my first period class, doing something with Of Mice and Men (IIRC), and all of a sudden there was this weird shaking.

Not earthquake.

Not sonic boom.

No reported explosions.

To this day, they have not figured it out. It was felt all around San Diego.

[ohiostorm]

Sounds wierd. Sonic boom would be the only explainable thing to cause that.

[BUD]

It maybe be the "Aurora"which is capable of speeds of mach 5.

[Johno8080]

NSW quake more like a thunderstorm

Residents of the NSW central west mistook a magnitude four earthquake in the area for a thunderstorm.

Geoscience Australia says the quake struck shortly before 8pm (AEST) Saturday at Wyangala, approximately half way between Bathurst and Young.



There have been no reports of damage, although people from as far as 100 kilometres away have reported feeling the tremor.

"It sounds like people have felt it from a couple of hundred kilometres away, which is a little unusual for a magnitude four," Geoscience Australia's senior seismologist Phil Cummins told AAP.

This is probably be due to the quake's depth, about 15 kilometres below ground, Mr Cummins said.

He described the quake as "moderate".

Marianna Xerri, an employee at the Wyangala Waters State Park, told AAP the quake created more noise than shake at her home, 16km south of Wyangala.

"I've been in earthquakes before, and your clothes hangers all shake in the cupboard and all that sort of thing, but it didn't do that," Mrs Xerri said.

"It was the noise, it was more like a thunderstorm, like a rolling thunderstorm."

The sound lasted about 20 seconds, she said.

"It wasn't long but it was strange."

Geoscience Australia will use the data from the quake to assist in predicting the effects of larger earthquakes.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061022/2/110ap.html

Our planet must be playing games with us!

[JonathanBelles]

we had a sonic boom about a year ago(?) and i shook the house for about a minute. i never heard the booms. at first i thought it was straight line winds, but then all the news channels came on and reporting differently.

[vbhoutex]

It maybe be the "Aurora"which is capable of speeds of mach 5.

Wouldn't be a surprise. We had sb all the time when I lived there. My dad has been gone since 1999 and he told me of an "aurora" sighting at Eglin and of hearing the massive SB which it produced. SB are not that common anymore.

[TexasStooge]

Sounds wierd. Sonic boom would be the only explainable thing to cause that.

Are you sure it ain't the booming sounds of a car stereo? (j/k)

[Nimbus]

Maybe they are filming the next Tora Tora Tora sequel?

[Opal storm]

These "mystery booms" are not uncommon in this area.The only thing I can think of is that Eglin air force base is not admiting to causing these things.

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/upd ... -008.shtml

[JQ Public]

we had a sonic boom about a year ago(?) and i shook the house for about a minute. i never heard the booms. at first i thought it was straight line winds, but then all the news channels came on and reporting differently.

why did you shake your house? you'd think the hurricane would have taken care of that for you. hehe jk

[NCgreenhead]

We have also had issues with sudden loud noises that shook everthing, since I live around 5-6 military bases I always assume it was/is sonic booms. I did see a show on the Discovery channel (one of the many doom and gloom asteriod slamming into earth shows) that said many smaller size asteriod entered the atmosphere and exploded (much like the Tunguska event only ALOT smaller) almost everday and that made me wonder if that could explain some of these.