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Booming noises recorded in Clintonville, city officials release audio
wtaq ^ | 04/02/12 | staff

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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To: vanilla swirl

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.


21 posted on 04/02/2012 6:46:17 AM PDT by gdzla
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To: MayflowerMadam

If that is your story, I’d stick to it! ;-D


22 posted on 04/02/2012 6:49:06 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: vanilla swirl

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?


23 posted on 04/02/2012 6:52:18 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: LucyT

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!


24 posted on 04/02/2012 6:55:21 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Booming noises recorded in Clintonville

On the positive side, at least she said she was satisfied.

25 posted on 04/02/2012 6:55:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: winoneforthegipper
That recorded "boom" is not a simple, percussive impulse like an explosion. It has a sustained "pitch" -- like a tympani beat...

Used to work near a petroleum storage tank farm. The tanks made "boong" sounds like that when they expanded or contracted with changing temperature.

26 posted on 04/02/2012 6:57:14 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: LucyT

they’ve been talking about this on the news here for two weeks now.


27 posted on 04/02/2012 7:01:25 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Upon hearing it, I can see why the residents are a bit rattled.

Tell me why. What's different to you?

28 posted on 04/02/2012 7:03:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: winoneforthegipper

29 posted on 04/02/2012 7:06:34 AM PDT by steveo
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To: TXnMA

Very Good point.


30 posted on 04/02/2012 7:07:17 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
The area has a unique granite base.

Snapping cracking granite - hmmmm....maybe.

31 posted on 04/02/2012 7:09:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: GOPJ

Yeah....shaking and booming would have been cool in my college days now....not so much!


32 posted on 04/02/2012 7:10:00 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Sounds like Seneca guns to me. And who knows what those are?


33 posted on 04/02/2012 7:13:56 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: biggerten

You’re right. I think you’re 100 per cent wrong.


34 posted on 04/02/2012 7:16:06 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: righttackle44

Yeah the difference here though that seperates it from other booming events is the quantified shaking and rolling.


35 posted on 04/02/2012 7:32:06 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: steveo; winoneforthegipper
Don't know who the guitar dude is supposed to represent, but the recorded "boong" sound is similar to what you would get if you hit that guitar body with a soft mallet...

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.

36 posted on 04/02/2012 7:45:40 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: TXnMA
The new Doppler seismic array system was the first to detect the small tremor swarm last week. And supposedly they do now have some excellent sound recording devices placed.
37 posted on 04/02/2012 7:52:10 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: TXnMA
IMHO, the folks who are bothered by the "booms" would be well-advised to consult with


AFTAC
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38 posted on 04/02/2012 7:56:40 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: TXnMA
Scratch the surveyor. A good GPS should suffice...

(Might need a better master clock than the usual PC provides, though.)

39 posted on 04/02/2012 8:13:23 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: righttackle44

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/


40 posted on 04/02/2012 8:21:30 AM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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