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If you heard a loud boom at the Oceanfront and other areas in Hampton Roads, you're not alone.
Several people are reporting their house shook and there were booming sounds this morning, with the first around 11 a.m.

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One person in north Virginia Beach said they heard "a loud noise like thunder" in First Landing Park off of Shore Drive. In Hampton and Poquoson, several residents said their windows rattled and they felt their houses shake.Paul Carusol, a seismologist with United State Geological Services, said the agency saw a spike on its seismometers.
Don Blakeman, another seismologist with the agency, said analysts with USGS do not believe there was an earthquake.When asked whether jets could cause some kind of sonic boom and show up on the agency's monitors, Blakeman said it's possible. Over the years people from Virginia and the Carolinas have called USGS thinking there was an earthquake, which Blakeman said turned out to be a sonic boom caused by military activity.