BREAKING: Huge Explosion Heard in Washington, DC Reportedly Shook the Ground Like an Earthquake’
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Sonic booms can be impossibly loud, but tend to sound different than explosions. I used to live under flight path for space shuttle returning to landing strip and the boom it generated would shake windows for half the damn state.
It’s a clap or double clap. Sharp edged sound, and short. It’s a crisp sound. Somewhat like the first harmonic of a lighting strike.
Explosions from bombs or fuel tend to be fuzzier and more drawn out. A prolonged fuzzy boom with varying octaves. It just sounds different.
If you heard this boom and it was instantaneous, fast and crisp, short, it was likely a sonic boom. They can carry far more energy than you would think, I still haven’t heard anything as loud as that damn shuttle sonic boom and that was decades ago.
I was in NoVA and heard it first hand...it sounded (to my ears, anyway) like muffled explosions, accompanied by strong shaking to the house and rattling glassware inside. I've also heard sonic booms, and they are JUST as you describe them. Something doesn't feel right about the D.C. phenomena from Sunday.