Mystery Booms Heard Across the U.S.

Beginning near midnight on December 4th, unexplained booms and trembling ground was reported in 5 states across the U.S. within a 24-hour span and is still occurring in Georgia.  Extending from Arizona to Rhode Island, this unprecedented and nearly simultaneous series of mystery booms vividly depicts the diagonal stress being asserted across North America.

"Plate movements and spreading Atlantic have positioned the N American continent for what we have long described. A diagonal tear in the New Madrid, a bowing of the continent around San Diego so that Mexico is too far West, an adjustment up the West Coast to relieve the bow. Meanwhile, the entire continent has stress of some kind as this process has already begun but has not manifested in large adjustments, quakes, as yet.

It soon will!" 

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Georgia  (Dec 4th, 5th and 6th)

Columbia County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Pam Tucker tells WJBF News Channel 6 there have been several loud booms reported in the county over the last couple of days.

On Tuesday, Tucker tells us there was a distant loud boom reported in the the Pinebrook area off of Hereford Farm Road between 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, at 9:07 p.m., a county resident heard a loud rumble and he says his driveway is now lifted up with cracks in in and the road and sidewalks near his home are now cracked.

Then, Thursday morning at 5:00 a.m., a man and his neighbor both heard a loud boom on the 200 block of Louisville Road.

Tucker tells us officials are looking for the cause of the booms and rumbling.
Source

Arizona (Dec 4) -

Jean Swesey was doing homework with her son in Cottonwood when it happened.

"It was a whole series of booms," Swesey said. "Up to six or seven. It was fast, it went loud. We were quiet and then my daughter down the hall screams really loud, ‘Did you hear that?' I sat there for a second and I heard another set."

Swesey wasn't alone. Residents in communities in and around Verde Valley and as far as Flagstaff called 911 or their police and fire departments to report the strange booming sounds.

"It sounded like thunder, but underground," Swesey said. "Like muffled thunder. And all the dogs in the neighborhood, all of them that were outside all started barking at once."

CBS 5 News first received reports of the explosion-like noises shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday and began checking with law enforcement and government sources. The U.S. Geological Survey reports no significant earthquake activity in Arizona that could have created the booms.

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office had deputies in the area who either heard it or tried to respond to resident calls. They found nothing.

The Sedona Fire District dispatched a crew to check a report of a strange odor, but that was unfounded and may not be related to the sounds.

The Camp Verde Marshal also received a number of phone calls about the booms. Officers found no evidence of any explosions.

But the Verde Valley contains large expanses of uninhabited land. "Maybe when the light comes back they'll find something," said Gary Johnson of Sedona Fire.

Swesey sure hopes so. "It was just, ‘boom-boom-boom-boom-boom all over the Verde Valley."

Source


Texas (Dec 4)

“We started getting calls at 3:09 p.m. (Tuesday),” said Eric Meyers, Navarro County Emergency Coordinator. “The first calls were north of Corsicana in the Hickory Hollow area with two separate residents out there reporting unusual tremors being felt along with a rumbling type of noise.”

“About two hours later, approximately five o’clock, there were additional reports in the same area of heavier tremors, the same vicinity, the same residents,” Meyers said. Another report came from the western part of the county, near Navarro Mills.

After the second round of reports, Meyers posted it on Facebook and suddenly there were more reports, but coming from all over, including Streetman, Purdon, Pursley and Dawson. Some of the reports came from as far away as Freestone and Limestone counties. The line runs about 50 to 60 miles long, and the tremors didn’t act like any other thing except perhaps earthquake booms, which are shallow sometimes undetectable tremors similar to what’s been happening locally.

“This is an unexplained event likely of a natural origin,” Meyers said. “We can’t come up with a point of origin or a cause or explanation of why this is happening.”

“We were trying to determine what was going on, any type of military exercises at a higher level than locally, we worked on this throughout the night and we eliminated everything we could think of and continued to do some through today,” Meyers said.

“We went through the process of elimination on what it could be and ruled out all these different things,” he said. “Whatever it was hasn’t occurred since 4 a.m. Wednesday. It’s unusual, to say the least.”

Source

 

Alabama (Dec 4) -

At approximately midnight around Gentilly Mobile Home Park, a mysterious loud bang was heard.

Phone calls to The Plainsman office suggested that the bang was heard over a far larger radius than Gentilly Park.

Residents around the area do not seem to believe the sound was a gunshot or fireworks, as the sound was described as far too loud.

Capt. Tom Stofer of the Auburn Police Department said the department received a call about the noise, but after sending officers out to the area could not find a source or evidence of damage.

"We were really never able to indicate where the sound came from," Stofer said. "As far as we know, nothing was reported afterward as being damaged."

Stofer could not offer any possibilities of what caused the sound.

"The source of the noise or sound is really unknown at this time," Stofer said.

More information will be released as it becomes available.

Source

Rhode Island (Dec 4)

Just before midnight on Monday, reports of a loud boom flooded police stations and social media sites alike.

Sources from the Warwick Police Department said they received nearly 100 phone calls reporting a loud noise that some thought was an explosion. Some residents called to say it shook their homes.

On the other side of Narragansett Bay in Barrington, residents also reported the noise, and a few said a flash of light accompanied it.

The calls prompted an initial police and fire search of the areas, and then marine crews took to the waters between Conimicut and Bullocks Point to search for the source of the sound. Senior Chief Jamey Kinney, from the southeast sector of the Unite States Coast Guard, said one of their boats from Castle Hill joined four other local boats to comb Narragansett.

Initially, the Coast Guard made calls to T.F. Green to see if they had any missing planes, but the FAA confirmed all was status quo. They also reached out to National Grid to see if any transformers had exploded, but they, too, confirmed all was well. The Coast Guard then tossed around the idea that the noise could have been a vessel in distress, but Kinney said their foray into the waters was more as a precautionary measure.

“It’s better to respond earlier,” said Kinney.

But there was no vessel, and after combing the waters for an hour and 50 minutes the Coast Guard returned their team to shore empty-handed.

To add to the mystery, residents further reported a low, droning, humming noise coming from the water that began about an hour or so after the initial boom was heard, about the same time crews took to the water to comb for a source.

Some on social media said the hum sounded like a distress signal, while others said it didn’t sound like anything they’d heard coming from the bay before. One person said it sounded like it could be a tugboat. But Kinney said the source of the hum is just as mysterious as whatever caused the initial boom.

Locally, reports of the boom came from local neighborhoods like Buttonwoods, Hoxsie, Conimicut, Lakewood, Edgewood, Warwick Neck, Gaspee and Governor Francis Farms. Other media outlets have reported that the noise was heard as far away as Somerset, Mass. Yet, there were still some residents of those communities that missed the boom altogether.

Though Kinney said, “strange stuff happens all the time,” he has never heard of mysterious boom like this in this area.

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 19, 2013 at 5:00pm

New ZetTalk, Jan 19, 2013 Q and A

Thank you. :)

http://easthamptonstar.com/?q=News/2013117/%E2%80%98Explosions%E2%8...

‘Explosions’ Out East? I was wondering if there is something more happening in Montauk, East Hampton as this seems a bit strange.  East Hampton is a peninsula bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay, Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay.
I'm not sure if it falls under the Booms category on the ning
but the article says "Blasts ‘occur without warning and leave no evidence."  and have been going on for more than a year although not during the summer. (Why)  I recognize that the bow stretch is pulling tighter everyday with adjustments in between.  Surely if this were a manmade occurence there would be evidence I would think.  Is something more happening that the Zetas can share with us? 
[and from another]
http://easthamptonstar.com/?q=News/2013117/%E2%80%98Explosions%E2%8...
January 17, 2013.  The sound of explosions started over a year ago, with what seemed to be professional-grade fireworks. Now the culprits seem to have moved on to pipe bombs, but the source of the alarming noises besieging remains a mystery. According to East Hampton Town police, the apparent explosives have been set off in a number of areas of the hamlet, including Second House Road, the golf course at the Montauk Downs State Park, West Lake Drive, and several beaches. The explosives occur without warning and leave no evidence.  The noises sound like a house exploding.

The blasts usually occur at night around 10 pm, but there have been a few during the day. In summer, the noises stopped.  Some have speculated that the noises are coming from the Long Island Power Authority’s substation on Industrial Road. If a piece of equipment failed it would make a loud popping sound and would also cause electrical outages, none of which have been reported. Police have found no evidence, such as burn marks or burned mailboxes.

SOZT
Close examination of the rock strata holding East Hampton shows that the strata is different than the strata under the rest of New York State. The bowing of the N American continent, and the occasional release of tension along the St Lawrence Seaway when that jerks open to some degree, create a back and forth action along the rock strata edges. Rock strata of a homogeneous nature tend to bond, and resist ripping. But along the borders where different strata meet, this tight bond is missing. This is allowing the Hamptons to hear snapping rock now and then, the booms which are so familiar in many parts of the globe. Why does this ease in the Summer? Heat swells rock and creates a tighter hold along the boundary, rock fingers having more friction and thus preventing motion.
EOZT

Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx050.htm
These matters are related to the rock strata, which bonds or breaks, as we have stated. There is a natural break in the rock strata holding Ohio, along the Ohio River and into its headwaters, as can be seen. Why should Chicago be affected? There is a natural break in the rock strata between the New Madrid and Chicago also, a weakness, which will rupture with the New Madrid.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on January 13, 2013 at 11:28pm

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/Chico-Police-Unknown-What-was-the-...


Chico Police: Unknown What was the Source of Reported Explosions

POSTED: 11:57 AM Jan 13 2013
On Sunday Chico Police said it's unknown what was the source of the reported explosions on Saturday night.

Police said they were flooded with 911 calls round 10:30 p.m. on Saturday night with reports of loud explosions.

They said some of the calls came from 8th Avenue and Ivy as well as other locations.

Chico Police as well as the Chico Fire Department investigated but were unable to locate any clues as to what caused the explosions.

On Sunday Police said they have no leads to investigate the incident further.

Comments:

Last night around 10pm, I was watching tv with the lights off in the house. Suddenly a green flash that looked like it came from my backyard was followed by the sound of a blast. I got up and went out back to see if something had happened but couldn't see anything. Would really like to know what it was. Sounded like a large cherry bomb

We were outside and heard a "sonic boom" no clue what it was....

That was no cherry bomb, and certainly not a sonic boom. It WAS, however, a VERY large explosion! I'm on Citrus, and had friends as far away as River Road say they had heard it. I thought maybe a meth lab exploded, or a propane tank.

It was loud enough to make the windows rattle, and made me jump about a foot off my chair!

We sure heard it! We're over by the Flyers station.


Comment by Howard on January 10, 2013 at 3:36am

Mystery Booms and Bright Flashes West of Boston, Massachusetts (Jan 9)

Mysterious explosion noises woke Ball Square residents early Wednesday morning, cause unknown.

The noises, described as loud bangs or explosions, woke residents at around 4 a.m. Wednesday. Police, fire and NSTAR officials don't know what it was.

One resident who contacted Somerville Patch described them as a "terrifically loud series of four bangs" and said the concussions set off a car alarm. They sounded nothing like gunshots, the resident said, but rather like "really big flash-bang fireworks rockets."

On Twitter, @mtrem2 said the bangs were associated with a flash and shockwave, and @slippery85 described four "loud explosions."

They weren't the only ones to hear the noises. Deputy Chief Charles Breen of the Somerville Fire Department said he personally heard the bangs.

Thomas Champion, a spokesperson for the city, said in an email that Somerville's 311 system received four calls about the noises, but "there were a number of other calls reporting the noise" that went to 911 and the police department's non-emergency line.

According to Champion, people reported the noises as coming from the area around Willow Avenue, Foskett Street, Kidder Avenue, Lowden Avenue and Bay State Avenue, all in a neighborhood close to the Brown School. There was one outlier: Someone reported hearing the noises around Forster Street, almost a mile away in Winter Hill.

In addition to the noises, "Some callers apparently also said they saw an accompanying bright white flash," Champion said.

The fire department dispatched Engine 6 to the area, thinking there might have been a transformer explosion, but "we came up with nothing on our end," said Breen.

The Somerville Police Department sent four units to investigate, and the city also called NSTAR, according to Champion.

"No cause was identified," he wrote.

Source

http://somerville.patch.com/articles/mysterious-explosion-noises-wa...

Comment by Howard on January 10, 2013 at 3:19am

Ongoing Mystery Booms in South Carolina (Jan 9)

For the past two weeks, people living in the Red Bank area of Lexington County have reported hearing booms late at night or early in the morning.

The WIS newsroom has received a dozen or so reports of booms heard in the neighborhood.

Every so often the peace of Lexington County is shattered by what neighbors describe as an explosion.  Sometimes it rattles the windows.

The most recent was Sunday evening. The Lexington County Sheriff's Department had widespread reports of a loud boom from West Columbia to Red Bank.

It's the hot topic on the Red Bank Happenings Facebook page.

We thought it could've been a sonic boom, but the FAA and the military both say negative on that one.

Others think it could've been Tannerite, explosive targets used on gun ranges.  But given the widespread reports, probably not.

USC seismologists say they have no record of any activity in the area, making the series of sounds far more mysterious.

We did get some emails about a metal recycler in the area, but that was ruled out as well.

So for now, the mystery of the Red Bank booms remains unsolved.

Source

http://www.14news.com/story/20525068/searching-for-the-cause-of-boo...

Comment by Howard on January 10, 2013 at 3:11am

More cross-country mystery booms heard in California, Utah and Massachusetts on Jan 7, as were those heard in Indiana and Missouri (reported yesterday in the previous post).

Hollywood, California -

The loud explosion that jolted North Hollywood on Tuesday night remained a mystery the next morning, authorities said.

An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood station said police searched the area for a half an hour Tuesday night but had no luck in determining what caused the sound. The officer said police received numerous calls about the noise.

At about 9:30 p.m., numerous people began tweeting about a loud explosion. Some thought it had come from a North Hollywood Metro station; others reported hearing an explosion in Studio City.

"Mysterious explosion a few minutes ago. What's going on? #LA" tweeted @ThatVitalSpark.

"Seriously, any leads what the hell this boom was in North Hollywood? Im shook up a bit" tweeted @RajRawal37.

A Reddit user posed the question: "What just blew up in North Hollywood?"


Salt Lake City, Utah

Hundreds of people from Weber County to Utah County, and some as far north as Rock Springs, Wyoming reported that they felt shaking or heard loud booms Tuesday night around 9 p.m.

The FOX 13 Newsroom received several calls from concerned citizens about the phenomena shortly after 9 p.m., but the cause remains a mystery.

Experts at the seismology department at the University of Utah confirmed there was seismic activity measured just behind the Capitol building.

Representatives for the University of Utah’s Seismograph stations said there was not an earthquake, ATK said they were not conducting any rocket tests, the Utah National Guard said they were not conducting any weapons or artillery training and Hill Air Force Base said they did not have any planes in the air after 6 p.m.

A map of earthquakes over the last day shows no activity in Northern Utah, or anywhere in the state. The closest quake was a relatively small 2.6 magnitude near Bishop, Calif., more than 500 miles from Salt Lake City.

“We don’t really know what this was. We don’t have the operational capability to even locate something like this, so we can’t say where it came from. We just don’t know,” Whidden said.

People in Wyoming, Indiana, Oklahoma and California also reported hearing a boom similar to what was heard in Utah.

Salem, Massachusetts

Salem and Marblehead police officers searched the area of Ocean Avenue early Saturday morning for evidence of what could have caused the large boom that prompted residents across the area to call 911.

According to Sunday morning's Salem police log, At 1:34 a.m., police received multiple calls regarding a "loud bang" on Ocean Avenue. They were unable to locate the source.

Many of our readers in Marblehead also reported hearing the sound, which has some town residents wondering whether or not it is coming from the harbor.

We even received word of the noise on our Salem Patch Facebook page.

    "Anybody know what the hell that big boom cannon-like noise was I just heard?? 1:30 a.m., near Salem State?"
    "What was the loud explosion sound with a flash near Salem State between 1:30 and 2:00 AM??? It shook my house!"

Comment by Howard on January 9, 2013 at 4:26am

Mystery Booms Heard in Indiana (Jan 7)

Loud booms were heard by many overnight and so far explained by none.

It turns out, the booms were heard not just here, but across the county.

The Vanderburgh Sheriff tells 14 News that it was around the area near Green River and Lynch where they received most of these calls about this strange boom.

It happened yesterday evening, and crews investigated, but authorities and people who heard it are still scratching their heads.

"The sound was like a war bomb," Stacy Lowery said.

Lowery who lives on Old Coal Mine Road in Newburgh had just put her kids to bed and was sitting on the couch when she heard it.

"A huge explosion, like definitely knew it wasn't a firecracker going off. I've never heard anything like it, very disturbing," Lowery said.

Lowery wasn't the only one.

Evansville Dispatch got several calls between 9:30 and 11 Monday night reporting an explosion.

"We obviously dispatched cars. I believe the EFD dispatched crews, the EPD. At the end of the day, we're not able to find anything," Sheriff Eric Williams said.

Crews scoured the area, but didn't find anything.

"It had to be something a little bit different than the typical explosion," Sheriff Williams said.

But what?

It wasn't an earthquake. The USGS doesn't have reports of any activity in our area.

Some people have suggested a nearby mine was firing off explosions. But when we called Vigo, which is opening a mine near Boonville, they said their permit does not allow them to blast from dusk until dawn.

The Air Force says it wasn't performing any military drills, either.

Authorities say, at least for now, it will remain a mystery.

"We're going to write it off as the unexplained at this point until somebody gives us an explanation," Sheriff Williams said.

Interestingly, there have been reports of unexplained booms from Arizona to Rhode Island. No one has been able to explain them.

Source

http://www.14news.com/story/20537321/did-you-hear-the-booms

Comment by Howard on January 9, 2013 at 4:21am

Mystery Boom in Missouri (Jan 7)

Many Tri-Staters were jolted out of bed late Monday night.....by something.  But as of mid-morning on Tuesday, that something remains a mystery.

Just before midnight, Evansville Central Dispatch began receiving 911 calls from people who say they heard what sounded like a loud explosion.  Some say their homes even shook. However, officers investigating along the northeast part of the city say they found nothing out of the ordinary.

Similar reports were made to Eyewitness News, not just from Evansville, but Newburgh, Chandler and Boonville. 

Vectren officials say the boom did not come from a blown transformer.  Evansville Regional Airport officials say they had no reports of military aircraft in the area at the time.

Source

http://tristatehomepage.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=575292

Comment by Howard on January 7, 2013 at 12:24am

Mystery Booms Near Anchorage Alaska (Jan 3)

Southcentral Alaska authorities didn’t have any immediate cause for a loud booming noise heard Thursday night and reported by Channel 2 viewers, but seemed to rule out sonic booms from aircraft in responses Friday.

Reports of the sounds were posted on Channel 2’s Facebook page Thursday evening by people ranging from Eagle River to the Mat-Su Valley. Some reports placed the phenomenon between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, with Channel 2's Late Edition airing a brief update on the reports. Viewers' descriptions of the sound varied, but those who heard it generally agreed that it was a strong and persistent noise.

“I live in Peters Creek and I heard several loud noises outside and then muted the television,” Channel 2 viewer Rachel Lee wrote. “After about a minute of silence, there was a rumble and my chandelier started to shake. I thought it might have been an earthquake but I looked online and there weren't any listed at that time; it was 8:05 p.m.”

“About the only thing I can compare it to is someone going down a dirt road really fast,” viewer Deb Spaulding wrote. “(I)t was that sort of rumble.”

“I was in the garage and I heard it. It (lasted) for a while,” wrote viewer Michelle Thomas Hanks. “At first I thought it was the wind until I stepped outside… My (neighbor’s kids) looked for what was making that loud noise and they could not see anything just kept hearing the loud noise.”

John Pennell, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s chief of media operations, says the base wasn’t flying any of its supersonic fighter jets capable of causing sonic booms Thursday night, with only subsonic C-17 Globemaster III transports flying until 9:30 p.m.

“Although they are loud, I don’t think anybody’s going to mistake them for a sonic boom,” Pennell said.

Val Jokela, a Federal Aviation Administration community-affairs representative in Anchorage, says the FAA’s regional operations center received no noise complaints overnight.

Law enforcement agencies were similarly stymied by the reports, with Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Dani Myren saying no noise complaints were listed for Thursday or Friday. Dispatchers on duty overnight didn’t relay any reports of the booms to the next shift, which came on duty at 7 a.m.

Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Megan Peters says troopers also had no noise complaints from the region, with AST dispatchers also not relaying any updates during a 6 a.m. shift change.

“There wasn’t anything there big enough for them to pass on or be told about,” Peters said.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory had no reports Friday on the noise itself or any volcanic activity that may have caused it. The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center’s latest listed earthquake was a magnitude 4.6 temblor on Dec. 24, centered 40 miles northwest of Valdez.

The National Weather Service forecast office in Anchorage also didn’t have any possible causes, saying there was some shower activity in the area Thursday but nothing more severe in terms of weather conditions.

With no immediate answers on the matter Lee, the Peters Creek viewer, echoed the confusion of many people about the source of the noise.

“It's strange no one knows what caused it,” Lee wrote.

Source

http://www.ktuu.com/news/southcentral-authorities-silent-on-cause-o...

Comment by Howard on January 6, 2013 at 12:46am

Mystery booms heard near Columbia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Source of Loud Boom in Red Bank Remains a Mystery (Jan 3)

Residents of Red Bank in Lexington County appear to have gotten a loud awakening Thursday morning as multiple reports indicate a loud booming noise in the area.

WIS News 10 viewers poured onto our Facebook page this morning to report the sound.

"What was the horrific boom in the Redbank area," asked Lisa Russell Fields. "People are saying it sounded like a plane crash or explosion."

"I also heard the "big boom" this morning. So did a lot of other people, it sounds like a close cannon or something and will shake the whole building/house," said Jennifer Lee Stokes Kleine.

"Does anyone have a concrete explanation for the loud boom that shook houses in Lexington County around the Redbank/YMCA/Old Barnwell Road area this morning around 8:30 a.m.," said Mary Frances Henry Bell.

So, what was it? The Lexington County Sheriff's Department doesn't know either.

"Law enforcement officers and public safety personnel have been unable so far to determine the source of the noise," said Sheriff's Department spokesman Maj. John Allard. "No explosions have been reported."

A similarly loud explosive noise happened last year in the South Congaree portion of Lexington County.

Residents reported then being woken up to the boom around 8 a.m. on a Sunday. Seismographs at the University of South Carolina even measured something in the area.

However, there was never any cause determined for that loud noise either.

Source

http://www.wistv.com/story/20496354/source-of-loud-boom-in-red-bank...

Grand Strand Residents Report Boom, Shaking (Dec 20)

The source of the loud boom and shaking is unclear, but lots of people felt it.

WMBF News viewers started reporting what they heard to a loud, shaking boom around 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Source

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/20394912/grand-strand-residents-repor...

Comment by Howard on December 21, 2012 at 6:57am

Loud, shaking booms reported across the U.S. again on December 20 (thinly veiled explanations included).

South Carolina

The source of the loud boom and shaking is unclear, but lots of people felt it.

WMBF News viewers started reporting what they heard to a loud, shaking boom around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. When asked, many said it was felt across Horry County, but even more in those same locations say they felt and heard nothing.

WMBF News is still looking for the source of the disturbance as our fans present ideas of their own.

First responders in Horry County have received a lot of the same calls and could not provide an explanation for those reports.


Virginia

Many residents in Prince William County reported hearing booming and rumbling sounds on Thursday.

The noise is the result of some explosive munitions training at the Marine Corps base in Quantico.

The training will continue until 5 p.m. Thursday, and will resume Friday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The training has been going on for most of the week, but overcast skies can increase noise and vibrations.


California

Calls poured into our KSBY newsroom and to local law enforcement Thursday morning after several loud bangs were heard and felt up and down the Central Coast. Many people also reported feeling shaking.

According to John Haire, chief of media relations for Edwards Air Force Base, the rumbling you may have felt was caused by an F-22 Raptor fighter jet.

"I heard the doors in my house banging and the windows were shattering," said one Pismo Beach resident.

"For the most part, everybody was reporting the same thing: that it had felt like an earthquake," said Jake Miller of the Pismo Beach Police Department, "They had heard a sound, but nothing was coming out regarding any earthquake activity in the area."

That's because the sound came from an F-22 Raptor fighter jet using a testing range about 50 miles west of the Vandenberg Air Force Base coastline.

"It's what we call a sonic boom," said David Oppenheimer of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The sound is produced when an object breaks the sound barrier. Shock waves are formed by the air that can't get out of the way of the object fast enough, forming a pressure wave. We perceive that pressure wave as sound.

According to Haire, Edwards Air Force Base conducts these types of operations year-round but today's atmospheric conditions allowed the boom to be heard and felt all along the Central Coast.

The shaking could be felt as far south as Lompoc and as far north as San Simeon. There are even reports of folks feeling the rumbling as far inland as Bakersfield.

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