Has anyone else had mysterious booms in your area?

[frogmarch]

25. It's very loud, and even though

my house is about a half mile from the college, the booms shake our house.

As to your OP, could the booms be from earth tremors? Even here in western Nebraska we get tremors and even small quakes from underlying geologic rifts that aren't visible on the surface of the ground. Sometimes we hear and feel booms when these occur. Late one night a few months ago, my husband and I were both awakened by a thunderous boom and we felt the house shake. We both wondered what the college people thought they were doing by firing the cannon at that hour. The next day we learned there had been a small quake from the rift shifting on the NE/SoDak border about 20 miles from here.