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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".
While the audio profile of Bloop does resemble that of a living creature, [4] the source was a mystery both because it was different from known sounds and because it was several times louder than the loudest recorded animal, the blue whale. [5] The NOAA Vents Program has attributed Bloop to a large icequake. Numerous icequakes share similar ...
Barisal guns or fog guns (mistpoeffers (fog dissipators) in Belgium and Netherlands, Seeschießen (sea/lake gunshots) in Germany, brontidi (thunder-alike) or baturlio marinas in Italy) [1] are a series of loud booms heard near the Barisal region of Bangladesh in the 19th century. [2] [3] There are various theories about the origin of the sound.
The “large boom sound” that startled people across central Orange County just before noon Thursday remains a mystery after the U.S. Department of Defense denied having flights in the area and ...
In the 18th century, Puritans thought these rumblings and boom-like tones were the devil. Now, plenty of the unnoticeable mini-quakes that frequent the area with a population north of 12,000 still ...
The police have received 114 calls about the strange booms since they began, but little has been done to solve the mystery. Mysterious booms in Southern California baffle scientists and residents ...
A Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded that a mysterious flash detected by a U.S. Vela satellite over the South Atlantic on the night of 22 September 1979 was likely a nuclear test.
‘Loud boom’ heard as far away as Annapolis, Maryland after fighter jets scrambled to intercept private Cessna that strayed into DC airspace