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'Big boom' heard from 3.0 earthquake in southwest Nova Scotia

Cassie Williams
CBC News
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:08 UTC
Digby, Nova Scotia
© Natural Resources CanadaA 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded about 42 kilometres soutwest of Digby on Tuesday at 10:40 a.m.
If you were in southwest Nova Scotia on Tuesday you may have felt the earth move.

At 10:40 a.m., a 3.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded about 42 kilometres southwest of Digby, according to Natural Resources Canada. The centre of the quake was about 18 kilometres below the earth's surface.

Brenda Small of Weymouth North felt it.

"I heard a very loud bang, just a big boom and then it was over," she said of the "shiver" she felt in her house.

"It wasn't anything to be a afraid of or think, 'Oh my, it's the end of the world,' nothing like that. It was just a big boom and then it was over."

Donna Gaudet was at her cousin's basement in Little Brook, N.S., a few kilometres from the epicentre, enjoying a coffee.

"We went flying up the stairs. If it wasn't an earthquake, we thought maybe a plane crashed. It was loud, it was louder than thunder," she said. "It wasn't really that exciting once the initial impact happened."
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Creepy trumpet sounds rattle residents of Spokane Valley, Washington

Nichole Mischke
KHQ
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:30 UTC
booming sounds
Thousands of people are scratching their heads about an eerie sound that's been heard all night long in the Spokane Valley but no one seems to know for sure where the sound is coming from.

Linda Pennfield from Spokane Valley and her husband have one theory on what the noise might be. She says the sound was so loud and so persistent last night, her husband actually got out of his bed and jumped in the car to track it down. His conclusion? The sound was coming from all the snow plows, as the metal plows scraped against the ground.

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Mysterious sounds cause concern in Washington DC suburb


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:59 UTC
Basement
© Flickr/Gnusam
According to locals the mystery of the unusual sounds is not new, but has, in fact, been going on for years — decades even.

For Cheverly mayor Mike Callahan the mystery is undefinable, and he accepts the phenomenon as a "fun fact" that brings the town together.

"The booms are one of our amazing little mysteries that drive us closer together," Callahan told local station NBC4. "You know, every community has its lore, has its myths."

While the mayor looks on the brighter side, not all residents feel cozy about the mysterious noises.

Cheverly resident Nikki Greco has taken matters into her own hands by keeping track of the booms, which, according to her, sound like a Mack truck ramming into her house.
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Texas residents report loud boom, house shaking - cause unknown


ABC 13
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:58 UTC
Lake Jackson water tower
© lakejackson-tx.gov
People living in and around Lake Jackson took to social media to report hearing a loud boom around 2 p.m. Tuesday.


Lake Jackson police posted on Facebook that they got calls on the boom and reached out to the industrial plants and were trying to find the source, but hadn't been able to.


Plants in the area also report having no problems.

Police are still working to figure out what caused the issue, but no damage or injuries have been reported.
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Chinese astronauts spooked by unexplained knocking sounds during spaceflights

Chris Kitching
Mirror
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:56 UTC
Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei 2003 spaceflight
© China.org.cn
China's first astronaut says he heard mysterious knocks during his first flight in space - but no one has been able to explain the cause of them.

Astronaut Yang Liwei said the strange noises left him feeling very nervous and he looked out into the vast emptiness of space but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Mr Yang, now a major general in China's Air Force, said it sounded like someone was knocking the body of the spaceship, comparing the noise to that of a hammer hitting an iron bucket.

The 51-year-old's unexplained experience has raised all kinds of theories, including aliens , and he said he has never heard the sound again since returning to earth.
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Loud boom, house shaking reported along Charleston, South Carolina coast

Angie Jackson
The Post and Courier
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:57 UTC
James Island, SC
© jamesislandsc.us
A loud booming sound was reported Tuesday morning along Charleston County's coast, and the National Weather Service says it was most likely caused by a sonic boom.

The weather service started receiving reports of the boom and shaking around 8 a.m. A James Island resident wrote on Facebook that the boom shook her house. A man said he heard it in West Ashley.

The United States Geological Survey has not reported an earthquake in the area.

"At this point, we're pretty confident it's not an earthquake," said Carl Barnes, a meteorologist with the weather service. "Unfortunately, we really can't say with any confidence what it was. ... If it is military testing, which is certainly a possibility, they don't let us know."

Otherwise, Tuesday in Charleston started off with cool temperatures, but more comfortable weather is ahead. The high is expected to be near 69 with sunny skies.
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Sonic boom over South Dakota remains a mystery

Mark Watson
Black Hill Pioneer News
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 06:30 UTC
Leonid Meteor
© Wikimedia CommonsA meteor during the peak of the 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower. The photograph shows the meteor, afterglow, and wake as distinct components.
Spearfish — The mystery of what caused Monday's loud boom remains.

Some theories have been refuted, while more mysterious references have appeared.

Shortly before 2 p.m., the boom was heard throughout the Black Hills. Some people said it shook their homes or businesses, rattling windows, and scaring them in several instances.

But the noise was heard in a much larger area than the Black Hills. Responses to Tuesday's Black Hills Pioneer story reported hearing the noise from Western Nebraska to Southeast Montana.

Kathy Griesse reported hearing the noise near the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument south of Harrison, Neb. She said it sounded like the noise came from the north and west of her. Additionally, she talked to people in Crawford, Neb., where people told her windows rattled at the sound of the boom; people in Whitney, Neb., also heard the noise.

On the northern end of reports, Lane Pilster said he heard the boom at his ranch, 14 miles west of Alzada, Mont.

This is about a 200-mile straight-line distance between the two reported locations.

Pilster reported that he and his dad both heard the noise to the south of them.

"The beginning of it was intense, but then faded off with a dull rumbling like a jet was flying by. The sound probably lasted about 8-10 seconds," Pilster said.

He also said he felt a moderate vibration around 5:30 a.m. Monday, and that it lasted 15-20 seconds.

He wasn't the only one to hear a strange noise apart from the 2 p.m. event.

Brad Scott, of Spearfish, heard a loud boom in downtown Spearfish around 7:30 a.m. Sunday

He described it as the "sound of about 8 shotguns going off at once."

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Loud, unexplained boom startles residents, rattles windows in South Frontenac, Ontario

Cris Vilela
Kingston Heritage
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:16 UTC
Mystery boom
A loud and still unexplained boom startled South Frontenac residents on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 24.

The boom, first reported at around 8:50 p.m., was heard throughout the county, including Inverary, Sydenham, Glenburnie and Sunbury. Several residents of Rutledge Rd, Railton Rd, Greenfield Rd, Perth Rd, Freeman Rd, Unity Rd, Round Lake and Silverwood Dr reported what was described as "a window rattling explosion".

While South Frontenac fire crews and OPP quickly responded to the reports, they reported nothing visible and were unable to find a cause. Some theorized that a jet may have caused a sonic boom, however no jet noises were reported prior to the sound. Another theory, an earthquake, has not been corroborated by recent seismographic records. There are some unconfirmed reports of a visible meteor streaking across the sky north of Kingston at approximately the same time, however, as well as areas of the GTA and Northern USA.

Some residents jokingly pointed out that the boom coincided with Brad Marchand's goal against the Russians, giving Canada the lead in the World Cup hockey game. The investigation continues. More to come...

Comment: On September 22nd, a meteor fireball shot across Eastern Canada and US night sky

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Sky trumpets: What is the strange noise plaguing Windsor, Canada?


Inside Edition
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:35 UTC
windsor hum
© Inside Edition
The mysterious noise that has many around the world baffled has now spread to Windsor, Canada.

It sounds like a trumpet and the bizarre noise is being called both a real-life X-Files and "The Windsor Hum."

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Bad vibrations: U.K. woman living with mysterious noise in her house

Luke May
Gravesend Reporter
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:01 UTC
Dartford
© n/aTemple Hill, in Dartford. So far no source has been found.
A Dartford resident has been living with bad vibrations for more than a year - with no explanation to the mysterious noise.

Katherine Turner from Temple Hill first noticed a noise, described as 'low voltage sound waves', in her home in the spring of 2015.

But as winter 2016 beckons, the pensioner is no closer to finding out the source of the noise, which keeps her up at night and forces her out of the house during the day.

When the noise first started, Mrs Turner went to Dartford council to get to the bottom of the noise, which she has described to us.

"It's very strange, it just seems to resonate around the air in the house, it isn't like a hum. It's very difficult to explain."

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