So, if you are living in Orange County you may have been ‘hearing’ or ‘feeling’ these fake earthquakes. The windows shake, you hear rattling, but the earth is not moving. Sonic boom, right? Yet, each time this has happened the Navy or Marines insist they are not flying planes that would cause this. This is the third time this has happened in Orange County in the past month.
Check out Science Dude’s (Gary Robbins) post at the OC Register about this last one.
Reading the comments is pretty interesting. For some reason I can’t comment – says I need to add javascript, weird – but there are a few crazies but some interesting theories.
This is the third time this has happened and each time it has been about 15 minutes past the hour. 915pm, 915am, and 1215pm. I don’t know why that strikes me as one of the oddest things but it does. After searching a bit, many other occurrences have not happened at those times but still a little odd. Other reports of a change in air pressure or the atmosphere is also odd. Well, the whole thing is odd.
Here is a funny writeup from Robbins about the March 3rd incident.
Sadly, now I am getting stuck clicking on links about mysterious booms, shaking, and rattling that happens around the country at odd times. The San Diego Union Tribune has an interesting take on an April occurrence in 2006.
One of life’s little mysteries, I suppose. Yet, I am so curious now.
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On another note, Griffin walked today! It was so exciting. He was standing up, holding on to my shoulder (I was sitting) and I scooted away and said, “Griffin, walk to Momma!” and he totally took three steps and walked to me before realizing it and falling down! It was pretty cool. We will have to try again tomorrow. He was pretty fussy tonight so he didn’t want to do it again!
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