Something weird is happpening here, they keep telling us it is

[spacelady]

sonic booms. I live in southeastern Alabama north of Mobile. On 12/16/05 at around 9:30am, I felt a rumbling that shook the house for 2-3 seconds. Felt like a slight earthquake & was dismissed by the media as a sonic boom. TODAY, 1/19/06, around 2:30 pm same sensation, reported by many as not a sonic boom but news outlets saying it can be nothing other. These sensations feel like thay are underground shocks. MOAB TESTS? What is going on ?

[Horse with no Name]

1. A friend of my daughter's is in the NG

He is going to Alabama next month for some kind of training before he goes to Afghanistan.
Perhaps it is some kind of military maneuvers? I used to live by Ft. Hood 20 years ago and even though I lived at least 30 miles away, I felt the earth shake every time they were in the field.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Last night on Malloy

someone called in and said they were testing something there.

[Sydnie]

2. That's some scary shit

I put nothing past them these days.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. We felt rumbling here too earlier in the week

I live in the Hamilton county area in Tennessee and we felt a big rumble here too. It really shook our house quite a lot and the big boom woke me up. :shrug:

[ThomWV]

5. The Used To Be Pretty Common

And nervewracking too I might add. Any way when I was young we heard them all the time. What you hear is a real quick double boom. Its very fast but there is always a double report - about like a double barrel shotgun when both barrels go off at once. It never really happens at once and you can percieve the double bang, even if you can't really hear it as two separate events. That's how you can tell.

[MuseRider]

7. I actually

kind of missed them when they stopped doing it. There was an air force base here and we used to hear them every day. You get used to them I guess.

[bbinacan]

6. How far are you from

Pensecola NAS? Could it just be sonic booms?

[gulfcoastliberal]

10. I live right by NAS

I've never heard booms other than thunderstorms.

[spacelady]

13. 60 miles, but no one is acknowledging that they are sonic booms &

everyone is puzzled.

[applegrove]

8. Those are sonic booms. Be thankfull you are not in mountains where

those suckers echo for a minute.

[spacelady]

9. I lived through almost twice weekly sonic booms in Nebraska in

The 60's & early 70's from Sac at Offutt AFB, this feels different & the military are not commenting, so just conjecture by the media as sonic booms is not cutting it.

[Steve A Play]

11. Nothing really showing on the USGS site

You can check the real time Seismogram Displays on the left of the page.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/

[spacelady]

12. Then if they are just sonic booms. Why don't they just say so?

I would shut up then.

[1monster]

14. We live a hundred and twenty miles from Cape Canaveral, but we still

feel the sonic booms when the shuttle takes off. I don't think we really hear the boom, but we certainly feel it. The whole house shakes and all the windows rattle. It does feel like an earthquake...

[spacelady]

17. Yeah, I dont "hear" a boom, I am just feeling it & the house shakes with

a rumble. My problem lies with the mystery of it, if there is a valid explanation, no problem. But so far total denial. That is what feels wrong.

[SPKrazy]

15. Probably Dumsfield Testing Nookular Bunker Busters

To blow up the underground bunkers in Iran

[meisje]

16. They're Here!

[carolinalady]

18. We had one a few weeks ago-Carolina Beach NC

the gov't told local media it was not a sonic boom rather the earth planes were shifting similar to an earthquake. I was in the car and totally missed it. My teen told me about it then the next day it was in our local newspaper.
edit to add: it apparently happened out in the ocean.

[spacelady]

19. did I do this right? Link to story

http://www.wpmi.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=4B3F4225-1C4A-450B-82A2-B32D973A2C4D

[LizW]

20. Blasting?

My husband works in an office building up on a ridge south of Birmingham, AL. The building is built into a huge vein of rock that runs along the ridge. The other day they were blasting for some road work a couple of miles away and the shock traveled through the rock to his building. He said he didn't really hear it, but the shock wave lifted his desk chair up and set it back down. He said it caused a weird feeling like the air pressure changed inside the building. He said everyone came out of their offices saying, "What the heck was that?"

[spacelady]

21. If it was blasting, I wouldn't think it would headline as "Mystery Boom".

Not to say your explanation isn't plausible, but even emergency officials are puzzled.