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Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck
ABCnews ^ | 17 Jan 2018 | Karma Allen

Posted on 01/17/2018 6:05:39 AM PST by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; earthquake; livingstoncounty; meteor; meteors; michigan; science
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To: exit82

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


41 posted on 01/17/2018 8:46:51 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: txhurl

There was no earthquake the meteor broke the sound barrier.


42 posted on 01/17/2018 8:51:48 AM PST by pas
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To: AmericanMermaid

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.


43 posted on 01/17/2018 9:59:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: shove_it

Just like a scene from the movie Starman


44 posted on 01/17/2018 10:04:38 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Grampa Dave

Thank heaven for small miracles!


45 posted on 01/17/2018 10:08:55 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: null and void
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

46 posted on 01/17/2018 12:20:10 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: shove_it

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.


47 posted on 01/17/2018 12:40:36 PM PST by madison10
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To: AmericanMermaid

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


48 posted on 01/17/2018 2:27:28 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: shove_it
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.

49 posted on 01/17/2018 2:35:46 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: null and void

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


50 posted on 01/17/2018 4:12:18 PM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: MD Expat in PA

Wonderful! Thanks!


51 posted on 01/17/2018 4:31:52 PM PST by null and void ( Trump's not politically correct, he's just correct.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks shove_it.

52 posted on 01/18/2018 7:41:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MD Expat in PA; SunkenCiv; C210N; null and void; All

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.


53 posted on 01/19/2018 12:48:25 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: shove_it

Wow!


54 posted on 01/19/2018 4:36:46 AM PST by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: gleeaikin

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


55 posted on 01/19/2018 8:26:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MD Expat in PA

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


56 posted on 01/19/2018 8:43:46 AM PST by shove_it (MAGA)
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