© Asbury Park Press
About 40 years ago, something so violent shook the Jersey Shore that the order was given to evacuate the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey.
The date was Dec. 2, 1977, and to this day and one federal investigation later,
no one is absolutely certain what happened."Not Earthquake or Sonic Boom: Rumblings, Tremors Unexplained," was the main headline on the front page of the
Asbury Park Press the next morning.
Initially, the supersonic Concorde was thought to be the culprit. A little more than a week earlier, the British-French airliner - which could travel twice as fast as the speed of sound - had started transatlantic service into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.