Posted on 04/02/2012 5:01:55 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
CLINTONVILLE, WI (WTAQ) - It’s been a challenge to record them, but Clintonville city officials have the first audio recording of the actual booming noises the city has been dealing with since Sunday night, March 18th. City Administrator Lisa Kuss says a Madison Area Technical College student Brian Sullivan was able to record a boom noise on Saturday March 24th. Kuss says Sullivan has been working with the city on and off for over the two week period whenever he has been available. The booming noises are accompanied with ground trembles that have woken up residents in the middle of the night. The U.S. Geological Survey says the area did experience a 1.5 magnitude earthquake shortly after midnight Tuesday March 20th. The USGS says micro-quakes like the Clintonville event are regular across the United State, but are not often felt. The USGS has characterized the Clintonville phenomenon as likely a swarm of micro-quakes. Late last week, Michigan Tech loaned the city four seismometers, and infra-sound equipment to detect the booming noises and seismic activity. Those are now transmitting data in real time to the USGS.
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I seem to remember, from years ago, reading that underground Wisconsin was the area for a huge submarine communications base. Wonder if it is being expanded or modified.
If that is your story, I’d stick to it! ;-D
Your comment caused me to remember when the bunkers were being built under the VP’s house when Cheney was there.
I wonder if Ol’Joe even knows they are there? Does Joe ever remind you of the Grandpa in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Yeah some are speculating that it was the failed rift to the west of the area. I am not thinking such. Some are speculating glacial rebound but that does not make sense either.
Certainly the longer this continues the more clues they will be able record but it sure is interesting!
On the positive side, at least she said she was satisfied.
Used to work near a petroleum storage tank farm. The tanks made "boong" sounds like that when they expanded or contracted with changing temperature.
they’ve been talking about this on the news here for two weeks now.
Tell me why. What's different to you?
Very Good point.
Snapping cracking granite - hmmmm....maybe.
Yeah....shaking and booming would have been cool in my college days now....not so much!
Sounds like Seneca guns to me. And who knows what those are?
You’re right. I think you’re 100 per cent wrong.
Yeah the difference here though that seperates it from other booming events is the quantified shaking and rolling.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the kid with the recording isn't pulling an April 1 "Ferris Buehler" synth trick on the townfolk...
OTOH, a couple of microbarograph arrays (like used to detect and triangulate on aboveground nuke tests) would be fairly cheap and easy to implement. Using off-the-shelf tubing, sensors, computers, I/O modules and software, and with the help of a good surveyor for precise siting, you could have mB arrays running in a week or two.
AFTAC
(Might need a better master clock than the usual PC provides, though.)
I sure won’t argue with you, since I have no evidence.
Whatever it ultimately is, it’ll be nice to know.
There are things like this elsewhere.
from an article about North Carolina ————
Such dins are not unique to North Carolina or the modern age. People living near Seneca Lake in upstate New York have long known of similar booming sounds, which they called “Seneca guns.” In coastal Belgium, they are known as “mistpouffers,” or fog belches; in the Ganges delta and the Bay of Bengal, “Bansal guns;” in the Italian Apennines, “brontidi,” or thunder-like; and by the Harami people of Shikoku, Japan, “yan.”
And check this out - http://drgeophysics.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/the-bloop-loudest-sound-ever-recorded-on-earth-source-unknown/
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