Scripps scientists locate sound that rattled San Diego County

[bananas]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060427-9999-1n27boom.html

Mystery disturbance traced to sound wave

Scripps scientists say it traveled over the ocean to desert
By Alex Roth
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

April 27, 2006

A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.

The scientists, based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, say the disturbance was caused by a sound wave that started over the ocean and petered out over the Imperial County desert. Using data from more than two dozen seismometers, they traced its likely origin to a spot roughly 120 miles off the San Diego coast.

Graphic:

Tracking the boom
That spot is in the general vicinity of Warning Area 291, a huge swath of ocean used for military training exercises. The Navy operates a live-fire range on San Clemente Island, which is within Warning Area 291 and sits about 65 miles from Mission Bay.

The researchers also have charted dozens of similar, if less dramatic, incidents that seem to have originated in the same general area of the ocean. They aren't sure what caused any of them.

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Sounds like a returning high-speed recon plane.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. I wouldn't have thought so...

Seismologists are usually pretty adept at sorting sonic booms out of the data - they have (I am told) a quite distinctive fingerprint: You can see an example here. Unless this is something really weird on a test flight...

My guess would be the Navy playing with something, err, divine.

Pass the tinfoil. :)

[rman]

4. Right, if they can't test with our consent,

they'll test it anyway.

[benburch]

3. "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush

Experiment IV

We were working secretly
For the military.
Our experiment in sound,
Was nearly ready to begin.
We only know in theory
What we are doing:
Music made for pleasure,
Music made to thrill.
It was music we were making here until

They told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
So we go ahead,
And the meters are over in the red.
It's a mistake in the making.

From the painful cry of mothers,
To the terrifying scream,
We recorded it and put it into our machine.

Then they told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
So we go ahead,
And the meters are over in the red.
It's a mistake in the making.

It could feel like falling in love.
It could feel so bad.
But it could feel so good.
It could sing you to sleep

?"I'll bet my mum's gonna give me a little toy instrument!"?

But that dream is your enemy.

We won't be there to be blamed.
We won't be there to snitch.
I just pray that someone there
Can hit the switch.

But they told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
So we go ahead,
And the meters are over in the red.
It's a mistake we've made.

Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm.
And the public are warned to stay off.

[Dead_Parrot]

6. All they wanted was...

a sound that could kill someone From a distance.
:scared:

[benburch]

7. You found it!

:rofl:

[OhioNerd]

9. I always had a thing for Sporty... n/t

[nashville_brook]

5. so, if it clear that it wasn't an explosion ...

and it came from Area 291 -- then you'd have imagine that it's a military "boom." maybe Haarp.

[Beelzebud]

8. Any beached whales found recently?