A meteor traveling at tens of thousands of miles an hour led to a loud snarl and ground shaking that had been felt all over Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon.
NASA confirmed a fireball, meaning a incandescent meteor, handed over the teach at 2:06 p.m. at an estimated shuffle of 75,000 mph, releasing what it said was the the same of about 300 heaps of TNT upon breakup.
“It looks to own fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles above indecent northeast Massachusetts/southeast Recent Hampshire,” NASA said in a press open.
The fireball isn’t linked to an brisk meteor bathe, NASA said, describing the phenomenon as “a natural object and now not a re-entry of teach particles or a satellite tv for computer.”
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said public security officials got stories of “an audible snarl” and tremors within the jap portion of the teach. The agency said there had been no known emergency police or fire requests linked to the stories.
The U.S. Geological Watch described the match as a “broadly felt sonic snarl from a suspected bolide.”
“Unlike earthquakes which occur at discrete put of abode within the earth, sonic snarl occasions occur alongside a linear path within the atmosphere,” it said.
There was no earthquake, and nothing made impact with the ground, the USGS said.
