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Goleta Vibrations
updated: Nov 08, 2012, 5:04 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

Does anyone know what the subtle low frequency ground vibration and low frequency sound is that's been happening every 10 seconds in Goleta yesterday and today?

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COMMENT 340740	2012-11-08 05:07 PM
Republicans stomping their feet?
COMMENT 340741	2012-11-08 05:15 PM
The mother ship has been re-fueling for a return trip to Zoldar.
COMMENT 340745	2012-11-08 05:25 PM
Environmental work off Robin Hill Road
SHOREBIRD	2012-11-08 05:49 PM
Laser beam waves from the planet Kolob angry with the results of the presidential election?
COMMENT 340763P	2012-11-08 06:24 PM
I hear it in my neighborhood near Cottage occasionally, always after midnight. I let it go... I'll never find out, though I'd like to. You're not crazy. ;-)
COMMENT 340767	2012-11-08 06:37 PM
Romney's ego sinking?
MESA	2012-11-08 06:37 PM
I love that there are others that are as sensitive as I am. I don't tell anyone because they don't get it.
COMMENT 340782	2012-11-08 07:37 PM
I'm pickin up good vibrations She's giving me excitations I'm pickin up good vibrations She's giving me excitations Good good good good vibrations
COMMENT 340785	2012-11-08 07:47 PM
Ward memorial they have been pounding in steal I beams???
COMMENT 340793	2012-11-08 08:01 PM
laying pipe
COMMENT 340804	2012-11-08 08:21 PM
I work next to the Cabrillo Business Park construction site and I swear my chair vibrates a little bit every once in a while.
COMMENT 340808	2012-11-08 08:51 PM
Smugglers tunneling.
COMMENT 340822P	2012-11-08 10:08 PM
call Dep't of Public Works office--they'd know of any construction going on. Pile drivers usually produce a concussive feeling as well as a dull sound. Is it 24/7 or just during normal working hours?
COMMENT 340838	2012-11-09 06:15 AM
It's probably your conscience telling you it's been too long since you hung out.
COMMENT 340846	2012-11-09 06:32 AM
It's probably construction, but if you are near the airport and you hear a low-pitched quick buzz every 10 seconds through the speakers in your radio or computer, then that is the airport radar. The radar's pulse rate is around 200 Hz, which produces a pretty low-pitched sound.
COMMENT 340859	2012-11-09 06:59 AM
Mmmmm, how are those sour grapes tasting, 340854?
COMMENT 340863	2012-11-09 07:09 AM
Thanks you guys made me laugh this morning! That's why I love reading Ed Hat.
COMMENT 340881	2012-11-09 07:34 AM
0854... the vitriol of the campaign is over, the election is behind us so would be so kind as to stop with the name calling now?
COMMENT 340929P	2012-11-09 09:22 AM
Fracking?
COMMENT 340941	2012-11-09 09:40 AM
SERIOUSLY: I live in Goleta and have felt it too. Its like vibration mode of your cell phone but coming through the ground in intervals very similar to a phone ringing, then it stops. I was starting to think that someone was buried under my yard with their cell phone on. Too bad we can't get any real answers, instead all we get are responses from screwball political whiners. Yes, I am talking about you.
COMMENT 340974	2012-11-09 10:34 AM
The 10-sec. interval sounds suspiciously like a piledriver to me. The only other candidate for that interval would be a geophysical/seismic survey, like the one they're proposing off Diablo Canyon. But the onshore equipment doesn't produce a 10-sec pulse, I don't think. Plus, it's too far away to be felt in Goleta from San Luis Obispo. Or is it?
COMMENT 341155P	2012-11-09 07:40 PM
763 here. Cheers, Mesa, glad to hear that there are a few of us! Pile drivers are pretty obvious, or at least you can go out and find them. Not criticizing, just lived near freeway for several reconstruction projects, beyond resurfacing.
COMMENT 341158P	2012-11-09 07:48 PM
Dang, I wish I could edit my posts! Construction never caused the sounds I occasionally hear or heard I've been through rebuilding/resurfacing of 101, rebuilding of buildings, rebuilding of a lane onto the 101, replacement of water mains and whatever the heck was done with Cottage/Oak Park drainage well before any Cottage demo or reconstruction. I can tell when it's my ears or occasional, not chronic, tinnitus. I always wonder if that's what it is. But there's a lot of stuff going on out there in the night! I'm happy I can hear owls, crickets and song birds in spring & summer. I still always wonder about the late-night jets. And the stuff I can't figure out? I fall asleep. As I said, I'll never know.

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