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2006-04-28 Science & Technology

Mystery disturbance traced to sound wave

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Posted by Whavitch Flaise2689 2006-04-28 13:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ha! Let's see the Earthquake/Tsunami guys top that!

Posted by Halliburton: Mystery Disturbance Division 2006-04-28 14:25|| 2006-04-28 14:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I think I saw that in an X files episode.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-28 14:35|| 2006-04-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Might be more earthquake-related than this article is willing to examine.

A 5.9 off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico an hour and a half earlier might well count for wave sound activity in that area at that time.

I'd look closer at convergence wave effect as a possible before so completely dismissing earthquake possible explanations.

But then, I don't write SF.

see: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_lcad.html

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-28 16:39|| 2006-04-28 16:39|| Front Page Top

#4 There's been some speculation that it was a test of a thermobaric weapon. That would be a whole lot of overpressure if so.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-04-28 17:23|| 2006-04-28 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a good way to clear the mines from the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-28 17:29|| 2006-04-28 17:29|| Front Page Top

#6 It would CL. But strange choice of location for a test.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-28 17:30|| 2006-04-28 17:30|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 - Why so strange? One million sq. mile offshore Navy test range sounds like just the spot for a little exercise. The article also sites dozens of earlier lesser incidents - sounds like their fine tuning strength of the thing - eh #1?

Posted by Jeash Ulolusing9422 2006-04-28 17:48|| 2006-04-28 17:48|| Front Page Top

#8 I was here when it hit - totally EQ-like. Totally Military in origin, despite the lies. I just wish they'd use this shit above Pakistan or Tehran..

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-28 18:37|| 2006-04-28 18:37|| Front Page Top

#9 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.

Somebody testing mini-nukes?

Dozens of similar incidents definitely points to military activity/tests despite what the local CO might say.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-04-28 18:45|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-04-28 18:45|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll go with a meteor. it was daylight and hence a 'fireball' would go un-noticed.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-04-28 19:01|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-28 19:01|| Front Page Top

#11 I just wish they'd use this shit above Pakistan or Tehran... by Frank G

Who says they wouldn't?

But my bet would be a motha of electric discharge--not the standard issue thunderbolt but rather a discharge behaving like a standing wave.

Would be nice to have the data for all the occurences (times and approximate triangulation of the area of origin--the "general area of the ocean" is too vague) then probably more sense may be made of it.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-04-28 19:21|| 2006-04-28 19:21|| Front Page Top

#12 it hit in east san diego like a 4.0 - good shake, no aftertaste

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-28 19:31|| 2006-04-28 19:31|| Front Page Top

#13 It rattled the building where I worked, but it was no quake (I've been in more than my share).

It was like a sonic boom with no boom.

Posted by DoDo 2006-04-28 20:21|| 2006-04-28 20:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Nothing to see here, move along...

Posted by Halliburton Earthmovers, Inc 2006-04-28 23:17|| 2006-04-28 23:17|| Front Page Top

#15 A meteor, even in the daylight, would leave a noticable ionization trail.

It was obviously an earth-shattering kaboom.

Posted by SteveS 2006-04-28 23:26|| 2006-04-28 23:26|| Front Page Top

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