BREAKING: Huge Explosion Heard in Washington, DC Reportedly Shook the Ground Like an Earthquake’
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When I was young there were frequent sonic booms where I lived from F4’s training at the base close by. I have heard hundreds of them. They would go supersonic as they left the TCA as they passed the commercial airport in town headed to the bomb range about a 100 miles away.
The home security camera I saw and heard footage of was not a sonic boom. It must have been far away from the boom as it sounded like a distant gun shot. Sonic booms are not heard over 3 states (even small ones).
F4 supersonic pass. Does that sound loud enough to tavel as far as this is reported?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gegJ1821jHA
Are they ever enough to feel like an earthquake?
No
If you have ever heard the crack of a high power rifle makes, like 30-06, AR-15 etc. that is the lead going supersonic when it leaves the barrel. The bigger the object the bigger the crack. Listen to the video that I posted above. Nothing close to shaking the ground…. It may rattle a window at low altitude if close enough ( few hundred feet)
I know. Worked on a flight line or two. Lived near army and air bases most my life. No sonic boom is causing the ground the shake.
That practice was stopped a while back. Residents/Casinos in Las Vegas raised hell about Nellis AFB jet jockeys rattling windows all the time. No more Mach1+ over populated areas.