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Earth Shake
updated: Jan 08, 2013, 9:31 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

What was the loud and house-shaking sound at about 9:05 AM? My long experience here says not an earthquake. My cat was quite interested in investigating but gave me no answers.

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MESA	2013-01-08 09:34 AM
I keep hearing it, what is it?
COMMENT 361339	2013-01-08 09:36 AM
Guessing the same as last time, the military jets practicing up high, sonic waves. Sure gets old! They will probably be back about 945 and 10 if it was like last time
COMMENT 361341P	2013-01-08 09:36 AM
I'm downtown. Hearing & feeling more rumbling, but not as strong as the first at 9:05.
ECHO	2013-01-08 09:36 AM
I had head phones plugged in but heard something over. I thought it was garbage cans/truck. My husband just called from the La Cumbre Jr. High area asking if I knew what the booms were because he heard it coming from this area. Thought it could be sonic booms again?
COMMENT 361343	2013-01-08 09:36 AM
Lockheed Martin F-22 Rapter doing exercises off Vandenberg would be my guess.
COMMENT 361344P	2013-01-08 09:37 AM
Yes, felt it about 9:31am in Carpinteria
COMMENT 361345	2013-01-08 09:37 AM
I wonder if it's more sonic booms from jets flying supersonic. I've heard a couple of smaller ones since the first one at about 9:05am.
COMMENT 361346	2013-01-08 09:37 AM
The last time the windows rattled in Goleta (they have rattled twice today now), wasn't it a military exercise where the jet(s) was/were traveling at supersonic speed?
COMMENT 361347	2013-01-08 09:38 AM
Heard it twice now in Goleta.
COMMENT 361348	2013-01-08 09:38 AM
@343 for the win! F-22s. Actually they're operating in the Pacific Test Range, quite a ways off the coast.
COMMENT 361350	2013-01-08 09:40 AM
It's funny to read that something 'new' or 'different' is getting old. What part, the new or different or the part where you don't know what it is?
COMMENT 361351P	2013-01-08 09:41 AM
Here we go again........
COMMENT 361353	2013-01-08 09:43 AM
@351P .... right?? -__-
COMMENT 361357	2013-01-08 09:49 AM
They must be testing Boeings new x-51 hypersonic scramjet
COMMENT 361362	2013-01-08 10:03 AM
Actually this news helped me confirm I wasn't the only person hearing it. Now I'm sure it wasn't nearby construction and that I am not on top of a sinkhole. Thank you Edhat.
COMMENT 361363	2013-01-08 10:03 AM
Vandenberg is not an air force base and has'nt been for a long time.It is now a "spaceport" and will stay that way.The navy is in charge of air and water these days.I put in many years as a contractor on multiple bases of all four branches of the military, and it seemed the navy had all the cool stuff.
COMMENT 361365	2013-01-08 10:08 AM
It's an air force base according to the government.
YPYETR	2013-01-08 10:12 AM
It was reported all the way up in Cobb, CA. Now you tell me how a sonic boom could be heard all the way up there?!? A few weeks ago, we felt an earthquake that was reported to have had an epicenter in Nevada, and then in Bishop. I think we are conducting underground nuclear testing again to deter North Korea and Iran. That seems to me to be the only way we would detect such low level events over such a wide range of locations.
COMMENT 361372	2013-01-08 10:14 AM
Frakking offshore?
COMMENT 361373	2013-01-08 10:24 AM
YPYETR - No...."we" didn't feel an earthquake that was reported to have had an epicenter in Nevada, and then in Bishop. "We" are a bunch of simpletons who don't realize that we live very close to two large air force bases and that supersonic flight tests happen all the time and, for safety, frequently over water, which puts us close to the action.
COMMENT 361374	2013-01-08 10:29 AM
For those that are unaware, there is a very large Sea Test Range just west of the Central Coast, and it connects to a large Central Valley air range via an air corridor that passes directly over Santa Barbara and Goleta. If you'd like to see the map, Google "NAVAIR ranges" or "Pacific Sea Range".
CARPSTER	2013-01-08 10:40 AM
374-Thanks for the info
COMMENT 361395	2013-01-08 11:22 AM
Vandenberg doesn't house fixed wing aircraft that can generate a sonic boom. However, this is probably the same as a couple of weeks ago - Navy offshore 50miles flying at supersonic speeds.
COMMENT 361401	2013-01-08 11:36 AM
365- You believe what your gov. tells you? Sorry for you.It is known as the 30th space wing officially.A couple of transient cargo planes does not equal an air force base.
COMMENT 361407	2013-01-08 11:53 AM
Why does everything seem to need to have some kind of conspiracy theory surrounding it?? Most times, things really are as simple as they seem and are explained.
COMMENT 361408	2013-01-08 12:02 PM
My uncle (retired Air Force) says it is the continued testing of HAARP in our area. Most likely for weather alteration.
COMMENT 361410	2013-01-08 12:04 PM
Internet is very conducive to making people with fringe beliefs very loud, and thus noticeable.
COMMENT 361412P	2013-01-08 12:06 PM
@407, the beauty of conspiracy theories is that anyone who disagrees with you is obviously part of the conspiracy!
COMMENT 361420	2013-01-08 12:43 PM
The last time we had a bunch of booms heard/felt, I was off Santa Cruz/Rosa fishing, and there were occasional broadcasts on the Marine Radio about a war ship about 30 miles SW of the islands doing live fire exercises. I heard the occasional blast... I am pretty sure that is what is going on, with jet passes dropping bombs or drones so that the ship can have live fire targets... Someone with a marine radio, monitor channel 16 and see if the mil is broadcasting... Im working, wishin i were fishin!
COMMENT 361425	2013-01-08 01:06 PM
If HAARP could actually do what your uncle claims (all physics aside) then why would the US test it on it's own population?
COMMENT 361459	2013-01-08 02:12 PM
Asking if or, why the US would test something on it's own population sounds a bit naive, especially for someone smart enough to claim an advanced knowledge of physics. As to what's making these booms? The only thing we know for sure is the Government/Military knows what it is and we won't know for quite some time, if ever. It does make me think we're about to have an earthquake each time it happens though.
COMMENT 361468	2013-01-08 02:32 PM
459- me too as far as earthquakes- I got over to the door jam- good practice
COMMENT 361477	2013-01-08 02:47 PM
@361468 & 361459 The fear or thoughts of an earthquake related to this is not unwarranted at all. As well as weather modification HAARP has been found to be responsible for generating earthquakes as well. Studies are showing that the huge quake in Haiti some years back is linked to HAARP.
COMMENT 361495	2013-01-08 03:29 PM
Crackpot studies with no basis in science, anyways. Since HAARP does none of those things. Hey, do you need any more tinfoil? I've got an excess.
COMMENT 361510	2013-01-08 03:50 PM
425- Tuskeege Syphilis test comes to mind....
COMMENT 361518	2013-01-08 04:04 PM
510 is on the money
COMMENT 361523	2013-01-08 04:12 PM
425-are you kidding or serious? There is a rich history of the government / military industrial complex conducting tests on its own people...who else can they conduct the tests on? I'm not saying I approve, but let's not be naive. If you would like to read about this sort of thing, you will find ample material from libraries and periodicals-and yes, many of the articles will be archived on the internet, as most everything is stored there now.
COMMENT 361554	2013-01-08 05:21 PM
Sonic booms are generated by objects traveling over the speed of sound. The "wave" travels *with* the object. It is not being heard simultaneously by people very distant from one another. These planes are flying fast and far and are generating these sounds continuously where ever they travel while at supersonic speed.
COMMENT 361600	2013-01-08 08:27 PM
wow
COMMENT 361637	2013-01-09 07:36 AM
Roger farted again.
MESAJIM	2013-01-09 08:15 AM
It wasn't HAARP. It was smart meters.
COMMENT 361660	2013-01-09 08:46 AM
It is just sonic booms. The jets leave interior airbases like China Lake, Edwards, etc. heading for the Pacific range over the ocean. They climb out often using afterburners to gain speed and altitude as quickly as possible, particularly on an intercept excercise. The are breaking the sound barrier just about the time they approach the coastline and the sound wave projects to the areas experiencing the pressure wave with both a "booming sound" and rattling things, etc.
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