Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck

ABCnews ^ | 17 Jan 2018 | Karma Allen

[shove_it]

Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook.

A flying saucer? No. A shooting star? Not quite.

The National Weather Service eventually solved the mystery, tweeting "USGS confirms meteor occurred around 810 pm, causing a magnitude 2.0 earthquake."

[windsorknot]

You make a good point: not your typical meteor flameout.

[pas]

There was no earthquake the meteor broke the sound barrier.

[Grampa Dave]

We miss all the cool stuff, too, here in North Carolina! Lol!

BOL! For once, (hope I don’t jinx us), those of us living in Californicator land of fruit, nuts/moonbeam, illegals, earthquakes, fires, floods and other bad stuff, didn’t have to live through this event.

[shotgun]

Just like a scene from the movie Starman

[AmericanMermaid]

Thank heaven for small miracles!

[MD Expat in PA]

Me neither, but we didn't get to define the word, or coin a new one for this phenomena.

I think we already have a term and it is "shock wave" or "seismic shock".

https://www.livescience.com/27188-russian-meteor-explosion-faq.html

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9339/why-do-some-meteors-explode-in-air

[madison10]

I know where it is. I live in the SE most county of Michigan, very much south of Detroit, that city north of Detroit should be mid Michigan or some such. I understand what they are saying, though.

[minnesota_bound]

#6 Sometimes a moonshine still will blow up and you see pieces flying across the night sky....

[MD Expat in PA]

Meteor that lit up the night sky over Michigan did NOT cause the 2.0 magnitude earthquake

Seems it was just a weird coincidence that a small earthquake happened at the same time the meteor was seen.

[AmericanMermaid]

Oh, wow. I just looked that up. Very interesting—thanks for the information!

[null and void]

Wonderful! Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks shove_it.

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• Flash of Light and Shockwave in Detroit are
• NASA experts point to Livingston County for potential meteorite discovery

[gleeaikin]

In 2011 I was living near DC and sitting on my bed. Suddenly the wall facing me started to shudder intensely as well as the bed for about 15 seconds. First I thought it was a big truck or an explosion, but no boom. Then a few minutes later the earthquake in Mineral, VA was reported. As a child I used to live near a fairly large lake perhaps 5 city blocks cubed. With a hard freeze on a still night we would get glass smooth black ice. A few days later we would skate when the ice was thick enough. Sometimes there would be a pressure crack go across the whole lake, ka-boom. Very loud and unnerving. I think caused by ice expanding above the water with no place to go. When we would skate it would change the pressure somewhere and the crack would be caused. I don’t know if anyone reporting such a crack sound here lives near a lake. It only ever happened with black ice.

[miserare]

Wow!

[SunkenCiv]

Frost quakes or ice quakes are pretty interesting, and just uncommon enough that they can throw ya off a bit when they happen... I could have sworn there was a recent article about loud booms from those in Minn or Wisc, but a search turned up nothin’ recent. Michigan is so wet (how wet is it?) it’s so wet that I think we gain about 18 inches of elevation during the winter as the wet ground freezes at depth.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2712694/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3108837/posts

[shove_it]

Thanks for the vids & pics. Count on the Brits to post a better story than our crappy news.