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The solar wind's equivalent of a sonic boom in the solar-system plasma medium can accelerate protons up to millions of miles per minute – as much as 40 percent of the speed of light. [citation needed] This is a proven source of auroras, but has never yet been shown to be sufficiently forceful and sufficiently abrupt to cause a "boom".
A series of loud booms in north Columbus remain unexplained. We talked to some experts about the possibilities. ... private jets and a helicopter flying near Clintonville around the time of the ...
During extreme cold events, you may hear a loud boom and feel like you have experienced an earthquake. However, this event was more likely a cryoseism, also known as an ice quake or a frost quake ...
Residents in parts of New Jersey and New York took to social media on Tuesday afternoon to report hearing a loud explosion, boom or shaking. Some speculated that it might have been an earthquake ...
Others said they also heard the loud boom and questioned what it could be. While some said it may have been caused by a transformer explosion, officials said a check of power substations indicated ...
A loud boom Saturday night left people worried throughout Elk Grove, and police are working to determine what might have happened. The unexpected noise startled residents around 10:30 p.m., Elk ...
Loud sonic booms were reported [102] as well as fragments found. [103] 2018, Dec 18 [15] Bering Sea, near Kamchatka, Russia 173 kilotonnes of TNT (720 TJ) 25.6 km (15.9 mi) Kamchatka superbolide asteroid (~10 meters in diameter) impacting at a fast 32 km/s. Largest airburst since Chelyabinsk.
The strongest sonic boom ever recorded was 7,000 Pa (144 psf) and it did not cause injury to the researchers who were exposed to it. The boom was produced by an F-4 flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m). [5] In recent tests, the maximum boom measured during more realistic flight conditions was 1,010 Pa (21 psf).