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What's behind the mysterious, earth-shaking boom of the 'Seneca Guns'?

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https://www.livescience.com/agu-seneca-guns-cause.html

EXCERPTS: Enigmatic booming sounds called the "Seneca Guns" have reverberated off parts of coastal North Carolina for more than 150 years, with some powerful enough to rattle windows and vibrate buildings. [...] Though the Seneca Guns can cause ground shaking, the scientists didn't find any earthquake records that coincided with the events, effectively ruling out ground shaking as the cause of these booms.

"Generally speaking, we believe this is an atmospheric phenomenon — we don't think it's coming from seismic activity, we're assuming it's propagating through the atmosphere rather than the ground," Bird told Live Science. "The data I've most focused on in this project is infrasound data rather than seismic," Bird said, referring to sound that has a frequency below that of human hearing.

[...] Signals associated with booming varied in length from about 1 second to nearly 10 seconds, with the station near Cape Fear picking up the most prominent signals. Anecdotally, the Cape Fear region is also known for having numerous Seneca Gun incidents. However, the sensor array wasn't dense enough to pinpoint where the signals were coming from, and more data will be required to trace these big bangs, the researchers wrote.

"Presumably, these are not all the same thing producing the booming sounds," Bird said. Some military planes that fly in the area have broken the sound barrier, so some of the "gun" sounds may, in fact, be sonic booms. And even in those cases, a natural signal could be amplifying them even more, he added.

With the Cape Fear region identified as the most promising location to keep looking, next steps for solving this puzzle would involve collecting more data over several years, using an array of at least three stations with three microphones on each, to more accurately triangulate where the sounds originate. [...] But for now, the booming Seneca Guns remain a mystery... (MORE - details)


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The mystery seems to be how an atmospheric phenomenon can occur repeatedly over the same geographic location. When I was in the Navy and stationed at NAS Kingsville Tx, there was about a half dollar sized hole out on the paved runway that always got struck by lightning during storms. Same location. Same atmospheric phenomenon. That's what I was told anyway. There's some unknown relationship between earth and sky that we have yet to discover.
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For some reason (age?) I thought this was going to be about guns that fired laxatives. Could work. You saw it here first.
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(Dec 17, 2020 01:10 PM)confused2 Wrote: For some reason (age?) I thought this was going to be about guns that fired laxatives. Could work. You saw it here first.


That's what happens when the US FDA unjustly topples one's reputation (i.e., Cascara Sagrada). An unbalance arises of that wretched rival tart getting free advertising.
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I think that there might still be a lot to learn about how sound propagates through the atmosphere. How is that sound transmission affected by winds, temperature layers, clouds and meteorological things like that?

I've noticed weird rumbling sounds at night around here. Others have heard them too and exclaimed about them. Sometimes it sounds like jet airliners a long way away with their sound reflected off something. Sometimes it's something closer like freight trains with the sound being transmitted funny.
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