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People from all over Rock Island, as well as Milan and Moline, say they heard it around 6:50 a.m.
Questions came in from Twitter, Facebook as well as phone calls.
Did you hear that? They said they heard a loud boom sound that shook their house and rattled things hanging on the walls.
What made the sound?
We made a lot of calls to try to track down its origin.
We called the Rock Island Arsenal, fire departments, quarries and anyone we could think of who may have the answer.
No one did. Was it thundersnow?
KWQC-TV6 meteorologist Kevin Phelps says its unlikely.
At the time of the boom, it was snowing heavily as a quick moving front passed through the area. But, the National Weather Service says there was no cloud to ground lightning.
Unfortunately that means we still have no answer.
Where initially only a hum, and only in certain notorious parts of the world, rock under stress has become noisy. Known as the Taos hum, the sound of a diesel engine running somewhere underground was an early entry. Then the Seattle drums entered the arena, rhythmic booming which was ascribed to flapping manhole covers. Booms from snapping and heaving rock were reported in the New Madrid region and humming along the St. Lawrence Seaway increased.
But in 2011, it became clear that where we predicted that the Earth would moan during the 5.9 days of rotation stoppage, it was not going to be silent between then and now. The trumpets of Kiev and the horns of Belarus went viral on the Internet, followed quickly by a roar over Tampa Bay that sounded like Godzilla emerging from the sea. Now, in early 2012, this has spread to the drums of Costa Rica and the howl of Alberta and the Borneo snore.
Where is this leading? At least half the Earth, at any given point in time, will be having some sort of tension in its rock. Clapping and grinding fault lines, vibrating bodies of water, trembling rock strata resisting being pulled apart, and snapping rock under compression or being bent. All will be noisy, and the most likely reaction among those who hear it will be to conclude that the End Times have arrived. However known in various cultures around the world, allhave some reference to the coming times. The establishment will be unable to explain away these sounds, and once again the Internet will be sought and will lead inevitably to our explanations.
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his drill bits brought up palm leaves and redwood trunks, which he says are remnants of a time when Alaska’s north coast was a tropical swamp.
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