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Mysterious loud booms - attributed to 'frostquakes' - rattling North America


RT
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:02 UTC
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Cold booms? Frost quakes? A winter-time meteorological phenomenon has scientists debating whether blasts heard across North America are, indeed, cryoseisms. Most agree that the loud, inexplicable booms are associated with cold, rainy conditions.

These ice booms have rattled houses in Georgia, caused the earth to shake in Montreal, and led law enforcement from several Oklahoma counties on an unfruitful search to locate the ruckus.

"It was this very loud boom that happened all of a sudden," Marjorie in Idaho, who asked that her last name be withheld, told RT. "My son and I went to look to see where it came from. It sounded like a door slamming very hard or something big falling down on the patio. But we couldn't find anything. We watched the news later to see if anyone knew what it was, but no one did."

"It was so loud the house shook. My kids ran in yelling, 'what was that mommy?'" Tracy Walker, of Kennesaw County, Georgia, told WAGA.

Residents in these areas thought the booms could be fireworks, gun shots, or blown transformers. But meteorologists have offered a less threatening, more fascinating explanation.

Comment: These unexplained loud booms have been increasingly reported all over the world. Mainstream science keeps trying to keep the lid on the phenomenon by explaining away such occurrences as natural, thus 'nothing to worry about'...

However, Sott.net has covered many similar stories of unexplained booms. We think that at least some of them may be the result of unseen and undetected meteors exploding upon entry into the atmosphere. Others could be due to seismic activity, specifically an electrophonic component to the thousands of small quakes reported everywhere as being on the rise.

Loud Booms are escalating across the USA in January 2015

NASA map downplays sharp rise in meteor fireball impacts over last 20 years

Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection

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Mysterious booms rattle homes in Oklahoma


ABC News
Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:13 UTC
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A spate of mysterious booms that has been shaking central Oklahoma returned for a second day Friday, again rattling houses and frightening livestock.

Oklahoma Geological Survey research seismologist Austin Holland said a series of booms, much like a sonic boom, rattled the Norman area starting at 11:19 a.m. Friday. Numerous others had been reported Thursday in the same area at about the same time.

Friday's booms weren't "quite as frequent" as Thursday's, Holland said. "It's quite interesting."

The windows of Anthony Young's home in the town that's the outskirts of Oklahoma City rattled. "We thought some nut was out here, you know, with explosives," Young told KOCO-TV. "It sounded like thunder, you could feel the ground shake, but it was nothing like an earthquake"

Both Holland and National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Day didn't have an explanation for the booms.

Comment: See also:

Loud booms are escalating across the USA in January 2015

Meteor fireballs loud booms and strange sky sounds reported over Oklahoma

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Loud Booms are escalating across the USA in January 2015


Strange Sounds
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:17 UTC
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Loud booms are actually usual on New Year's Eve. However, I think that all the rockets and fireworks have already exploded two or three days after! So what are these mysterious booms heard and felt across the US in the first days of 2015?

Yesterday, mystery booms have been reported across the US from Texas to North Carolina, California to Indiana and Georgia, so literally all over the country. Freaky, isn't it?

Lucy banks shared on the DSW Scanner's Facebook page: "Loud booms in Euless, Texas just now lots of them started off really loud and then got quieter." On the same thread Kim Walk Prazak reports another boom in Keller, Tx. Any ideas about their origin?

Jennifer Whitacker reports 2 loud booms again, the first was louder than the second in Indiana. Just remember that the New Madrid fault lies right under this state. Is the next big one around?

Comment: In all likelihood most of these blasts are overhead explosions of incoming space rocks and other seismic interactions brought about from our changing cosmic climate.

See: Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection

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Bingham County, Idaho rocked by two mystery explosions less than a week apart


Idaho State Journal
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:41 UTC
Bingham County residents are reporting a second mysterious explosion less than a week after the first blast triggered several 911 calls.

Residents in the town of Riverside reported to the local media Sunday evening that they not only heard a loud explosion but the boom was powerful enough to shake their homes.

However, the Bingham County Sheriff's Office says that it did not receive any calls from residents about Sunday night's alleged blast.

This is in stark contrast to the explosion that several Groveland residents reported to the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday afternoon.

Comment: Most likely another overhead explosion.

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Unexplained loud boom shakes Louisiana's Natchitoches Parish


Fox 12 Oregon
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:13 UTC
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A loud boom has Natchitoches Parish sheriff's deputies searching for a source. Authorities say the boom happened in south Natchitoches Parish just after 5:30 Sunday evening. The incident reportedly shook several residences.

Deputies checked the area searching for a source but so far, nothing has been found. Authorities say they also checked with Fort Polk officials and no military training operations were held at Peason Ridge Sunday.

Comment: There have been other reports of 'unexplained' booms lately: Mysterious explosions and loud bangs heard all over UK: Listen to the recording and learn to recognize an overhead explosion

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NW Atlanta neighborhoods plagued by mysterious noise

Rachel Stockman
WSB-TV2, Atlanta
Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:21 UTC

A mysterious noise is plaguing a northwest Atlanta community and keeping some neighbors up at night.

"It sounds like a tornado siren roughly," one neighbor said.

Since it started about six weeks ago, neighbors in three different developments along Marietta Road in northwest Atlanta say they've heard the noise.

"It can go off at 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and you don't know what it can be," said Wendell Burks.

"We are hearing sirens, maybe 10 times a day, late at night, at all hours," said Anna Wagner.

When Channel 2 Action News visited the neighborhood Sunday, we heard the noise five or six times.
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Loud boom heard in Camden, Maine a mystery

Holly S. Edwards
Penobscot Bay Pilot
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:10 UTC
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For some residents who were awake, the loud boom around 1:30 a.m. Sunday was unmistakable. For others, who were asleep, the sound jarred them awake.

Following the single loud noise, nothing came across the police scanners indicating that first responders or police were investigating or responding to an emergency. A call to Knox County Regional Communications Center Sunday morning revealed that nobody had called in to report an issue, or hearing a loud boom sound.

But a post on Facebook brought out reports from others who heard it.

It's not clear where the boom originated, but there have been reports on Facebook of it being heard on lower Chestnut Street, Sea Street, Trim Street and Free Street. I know I heard it on Chestnut Street, near Highland Avenue, but the sound was in the distance as it came in from an open west-facing window.

Comment: The data provided by the article points to a frost quake not causing the loud boom. Sott.net has covered many similar stories of unexplained booms and proposes the hypothesis that instances of such booms without any other explanation are in all likelihood the result of unseen meteors exploding upon entry into the atmosphere.

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Source of boom heard around ArkLaTex not identified


KSLA
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:52 UTC
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The source of a loud boom heard at points across the ArkLaTex from Marshall to Keithville to Haughton remains a mystery at this hour.

"My couch came up off the floor a little bit, my back wall felt like it was going to cave in, it was so loud!" says Linda Stewart, who lives off of Shirley Francis Rd. in Greenwood.

The reverberation was heard and felt by staffers at KSLA News 12 at the studios on Fairfield Ave. in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood at 4:27 p.m. The concussion rattled windows. Meteorologist Jeff Castle says the closest incidence of possible thunder at that time was in Monroe, to the east in Ouachita Parish.

Some reports say it shook the ground.

KSLA News 12 has checked in with numerous law enforcement agencies and across the area and we continue to work to track down the source.
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Cover-up? Columbus, Georgia shakes after loud boom blamed on planes

Ben Wright
Ledger-Enquirer
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
A military aircraft flying over Columbus apparently broke the sound barrier Tuesday afternoon with a thunderous boom, setting off cars alarms and sending people out into the streets.

The loudest sound ever heard by some residents rocked the city shortly before 5 p.m. It was heard at the airport, north to Midland, west to Phenix City and east to the Fort Benning reservation.

A sonic boom is created when an object is traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Breaking the sound barrier is only possible with a military aircraft.


Comment: One would think after the amount of media coverage given to the Russian meteor in 2013 that reporters and people would realize another possible source of objects breaking the sound barrier!

This was an extreme boom and it is doubtful the boom was caused by a sonic boom from aircraft given the information provided in this article. A reader of another article about the boom commented:
I don't buy the 'routine testing' soundbyte either. We have lived here for many years, and we've never heard anything like that since we came to Columbus. Even an M1A1 Abrams, or a Paladin aren't as loud as what we heard today, ubless you're very close to them. I also thought there was an FAA regulation against making sonic booms like that over cities...unless there was a darn good reason. GA Air Nat'. Guard routine testing should normally not be done over cities-whatever their website says.
Looks like the military aircraft sonic boom excuse is being given in this case as a means to cover-up the increasing frequency of meteors entering and exploding in the atmosphere. Can't have people waking up and realizing their leaders are powerless to protect them.

Here is a video of the Russian meteor as a reminder:




Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said there were some military flights in the area but not supersonic. "We are aware that military flight activity was underway over the area, but we don't know about any supersonic flights," she said.

Shortly after the boom, a Columbus patrolman near the airport said two aircraft flying over broke the sound barrier, but Police Lt. J.F. Ross said nothing had been confirmed in connection with the loud noise.
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No one really knows what all the booms are about off the coast of North Carolina

Sam Walker
The Outer Banks Voice
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
sonic boom
An F/A-18 breaking the sound barrier. Sometimes weather conditions can reflect sonic booms back toward shore. In this case the Navy denied exercises in the area.
If there is one constant on the Outer Banks, it has to be the noise. Not to the level of noise in New York City, but noise nonetheless.

Gentle lapping waves on the soundside, or pounding surf on the oceanside. The ever-present wind rustling through marsh grass. Insects, frogs, and birds singing their vari-BOOOOOOM!

Wednesday was another one of those mornings where everyone, from the fifth generation native to the visitor who just pulled into a rental cottage for the first time, immediately yells, "What the heck was that!?"

At least three separate almost ear-shattering booms were heard from Corolla to Manteo, and on the mainland of Currituck County, between 10:50 a.m. and noon.

Comment: Given the sparse amount of information in this report it is hard to determine exactly what might have been the source of these booms. Regular Sott.net readers may have noticed the lack of reports of loud or mysterious booms this summer. This most likely coincided with the reduced reports about fireballs and meteors. These booms may be related to the recent upsurge in fireball sightings or they may be indicative of some other earth changes phenomenon as of yet unexplained.

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