Source of boom remains a mystery

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060404-1102-bn04boom2.html

UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

11:02 a.m. April 4, 2006

SAN DIEGO – A big boom was heard around San Diego County Tuesday morning, but it was unclear what caused it.

The U.S. Geological Survey and CalTech said there was no seismic activity in the San Diego area.

“We are not showing any seismic activity in San Diego. So, it was something else. It wasn't an earthquake,” said Deborah Williams-Hedges, a spokeswoman for CalTech.

A microearthquake with a magnitude of 1.6 was reported at 8:53 a.m. but it was located near Ridgecrest, Calif., which is about 200 miles from San Diego.

A spokesman at Camp Pendleton in North County said they were doing routine artillery training Tuesday morning, but it was not known whether that was responsible for the rattling felt all over the region.

“I can't say we caused the boom, but I can say we are conducting training this morning with 81mm mortars,” said Marine Cpl. K.T. Tran. “The training started at 6 a.m. and it is going to end at midnight.”

Base officials say rumblings from the mortar training at times can be heard up to 50 miles away, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Whatever caused the boom had residents from all around the region calling emergency dispatchers at the county Sheriff's Department and San Diego Police Department shortly before 9 a.m.

“There was a boom and we don't know what it is,” said Lt. Jim Bolwerk, who works in the sheriff's communication center.

The boom caused windows to rattle in office buildings in Mission Valley and in Kearny Mesa as well as homes in Poway and Rancho Santa Fe. Residents reported the rattling lasting for several seconds.

A spokeswoman at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station said it wasn't caused by any activity or aircraft on the base.

“We have nothing on our flight line, nothing unusual going on,” said Lt. Victoria Jennings. “We felt it here, too.”

A spokeswoman at Vandenberg Air Force, which is north of Santa Barbara, said she didn't think their base was responsible, either.

“We didn't launch any rockets. I can find out if there is aircraft testing,” said Tech Sgt. Rebecca Danet.

Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md., said he knew of no weather phenomenon in the San Diego region that could have caused the boom.
County emergency officials also were stumped.

“Speculation is it's a sonic boom or something along that line, but it is all speculation,” said Tom Amabile, a senior emergency services coordinator with the county Office of Emergency Services.

Yeah. That's it. It was mortars. What happened is that a whole bunch of sound waves from the mortars decided to hang around and build each other up, then move from Camp Pendleton to San Diego and form a (as in one) big boom.

 

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Found an interesting and very well made presentation/research, about all those booms (maybe something for SOTT (Best Of The Web)??):

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Interesting...

According to him, mysteries booms have been an indicator in the past, for major geological upheaval in the near future (aka. big earthquakes and stuff), and now there seem to be more of those booms then we have ever noticed. According to him, something major is going on, geological wise on the whole planet right now (geological plates of the earth shifting). He also connects that, to the mysteries major data changes of buoys that is noticed lately (discussed here = https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,31222.msg412874.html#msg412874). A lot of geological stress, is building up on the whole planet. He proofs for example (by mainstream science publications) that the big Sumatra earthquake triggered more geological stress, on the whole planet to build up.

His theory:

When the big Sumatra quake happened, it triggered a global chain reaction with earthquakes at other places maybe causing a plate breakup or adjustment that is going on now. That triggered for example the big data on a buoy in Indonesia, which suggests that there is major plate movement going on right now. Basically he is showing a number of recent major buoy water column changes and that they might be related to major earthquakes that happened about at the same time on other parts of the planet, suggesting major plate activity/stress around the world right now. So that also seems to suggest that the buoy datas are not an error, but represent real big changes in ground/plate height movement beneath them. By the way, it seems that a particular buoy, that showed huge changes of water column heights, was being removed completely from the system now, after quite a number of people noticed it and it wend viral and was shared on the web. Normally they just shot it down when big changes in water column height occur, but with this famous one, they now decided to remove it completely from the system. One wonders of course...

He suggests that geological agencies remove those data points in many places (critical buoy data, boom data, earthquake data etc) for a reason, and it is not really because they show "wrong data", but because someboy wants to cover it up. And what they want to cover up is, that huge pressure/stress is building up on the globe and especially in the US and the new madrid fault line.

So besides of the likely possibility, that quite a number of fireballs might be the source of booms, geological/environmental upheaval might also explain quite a number of them. Doesn't mean that they could not be interrelated, in some way with eachother at times...

A lot of that booming seems to be going on, in recent months and years, to say the least... And the mainstream is covering it up. Wonder why?