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8:35am: 3 strong BOOMs, each about 10 seconds apart.
Not at all like the magnitude 3 earthquake rumble we had a few days ago.
Much stronger than the booms a few days before, which were likely training exercises at Fort Jackson.
And I have to wonder, is it a bomb strike somewhere, retaliatory...?
When I checked on the earthquake the other day, the seismographs were about 5 minutes behind.. well it has been 5 minutes now, so ... Nothing showing up yet. No sirens either; no alarms.
I wonder what it would feel like here if a nuclear bomb hit several states away.
Gah. I haven't even gone to bed yet. This was a night were I didn't feel sleepy.
Update, 8:57am:
Nothing showed up on the seismographs. But people all over town felt the booms, based on Nextdoor and Facebook comments. I'm not the only one wondering if it could have been bombs. Or explosions of some kind.
Ahh... sonic booms from aircraft, maybe? I don't recall feeling them so strong before.
Update, 13:22:
Two hours sleep later, I'm *nice and refreshed*.
With sonic booms, I usually hear a roaring sound approaching before the boom, which prompts me to run outside or to the window where I can sometimes see jets flying overhead. These booms didn't have a roaring sound first.
Before bed, I found a comment on Nextdoor stating "Fort Jackson Range Control confirmed they were detonating old explosives," but no corroborating information anywhere else.
Fort Jackson finally posted an explanation on Facebook 4 hours later:
Notice regarding reported explosive sounds: Fort Jackson conducted three controlled detonations on a training range as part of necessary maintenance at 8:35 a.m. on Sunday, March 1. Additional demolition training being conducted by a tenant unit may result in other explosive sounds outside hat time frame.
So, apparently detonating old explosives == necessary maintenance?
This Reddit thread is an example of the comments people were leaving on social media about the unknown BOOMs. The explosions were felt 15 to 30 miles or more away from Fort Jackson, depending where on the grounds of the fort they took place.
Not at all like the magnitude 3 earthquake rumble we had a few days ago.
Much stronger than the booms a few days before, which were likely training exercises at Fort Jackson.
And I have to wonder, is it a bomb strike somewhere, retaliatory...?
When I checked on the earthquake the other day, the seismographs were about 5 minutes behind.. well it has been 5 minutes now, so ... Nothing showing up yet. No sirens either; no alarms.
I wonder what it would feel like here if a nuclear bomb hit several states away.
Gah. I haven't even gone to bed yet. This was a night were I didn't feel sleepy.
Update, 8:57am:
Nothing showed up on the seismographs. But people all over town felt the booms, based on Nextdoor and Facebook comments. I'm not the only one wondering if it could have been bombs. Or explosions of some kind.
Ahh... sonic booms from aircraft, maybe? I don't recall feeling them so strong before.
Update, 13:22:
Two hours sleep later, I'm *nice and refreshed*.
With sonic booms, I usually hear a roaring sound approaching before the boom, which prompts me to run outside or to the window where I can sometimes see jets flying overhead. These booms didn't have a roaring sound first.
Before bed, I found a comment on Nextdoor stating "Fort Jackson Range Control confirmed they were detonating old explosives," but no corroborating information anywhere else.
Fort Jackson finally posted an explanation on Facebook 4 hours later:
Notice regarding reported explosive sounds: Fort Jackson conducted three controlled detonations on a training range as part of necessary maintenance at 8:35 a.m. on Sunday, March 1. Additional demolition training being conducted by a tenant unit may result in other explosive sounds outside hat time frame.
So, apparently detonating old explosives == necessary maintenance?
This Reddit thread is an example of the comments people were leaving on social media about the unknown BOOMs. The explosions were felt 15 to 30 miles or more away from Fort Jackson, depending where on the grounds of the fort they took place.