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WMUR Updated: 10:20 PM EDT Oct 10, 2021 [46]Scott Cook [47]News Reporter By Duncan Shaw People across southern New Hampshire report loud boom, shaking USGS: no indication of earthquake; FAA: no record of military plane activity Share * * * Copy Link (BUTTON) ____________________ (BUTTON) Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! WMUR Updated: 10:20 PM EDT Oct 10, 2021 (BUTTON) Hide Transcript (BUTTON) Show Transcript STATION ABOUT IT. WE'VE CHECKED IN WITH ALL SORTS OF EXPERTS AND SO FAR... NO CONFIRMATION ON WHAT THAT SOUND WA S. (NATS -- RING VIDEO, SOUND BOOSTED) THIS DOORBELL CAMERA SYSTEM... FROM A VIEWER IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. .. PICKS UP THE BOOM THAT SO MANY ACROSS THE REGION HEARD SUNDAY MORNING. (NATS --LOOP / REPLAY THE VIDEO?) (EILEEN CHEEVER) <0:36 "A LITTLE AFTER 11:30, WE HEARD A REALLY LOUD BOOM AND A SUBLTE SHAKE. TO THE POINT WHERE I THOUGHT, EITHER MY HUSBAND HAD DROPPED SOMETHING IN THE GARAGE, OR HE HAD THOUGHT THAT I HAD DROPPED SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE. 0:46 > (RICHARD BOSSA) RT <1:01 "FIRST THING WAS LIKE A HUGE THUMP, LIKE A VY ER HEAVY PERSON HAD LANDED ON THEIR HEELS ON OUR SECOND FLOOR." 1:05> (THOMAS DESTEP H) <0:34 "ALL OF A SUDDENT HIS HUGE BOOM -- IT SOUDNED LI KE SOMETHING HUGE FELL IN THE HOUSE SOMEWHERE. 0:39> (TAKE FS MAP THAT DUNCAN MADE) WMUR RECEIVED REPORTS OF PEOPLE FEELING OR HEARING THE BOOM FROM REMO THA40N CITIES AND TOWNS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE... FROM KEENE TO FA RMINONGT. PEOPLE ALSO SAY THY FELT IT IN NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS AND EASTERN MAINE... EVEN A WOMAN ON CAPE COD WRITING IN TO SAY SHE TOO HEARD THE BOOM. (JOHN EBEL) <"0:26 I'M NOT SURE WHAT WAS HEARD TODAY. I CAN RULE OUT THAT IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE.' 0:31> JOHN EBEL IS A RESEARCH SCIENTIST AT BOSTON COLLEGE'S WESTON OBSERVATORY <0:31 "WE SEE NOTHING ON OUR SEISMIC STATIONS THAT INDICATE THAT THERE WAS ANY EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY IN T HE MIDDLE OF THE DAY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 0:39> EBEL... AND U-S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TELL WMUR... THERE WAS NO EARTHQUAKE ANYWHERE IN THE REGION TODAY. THE NEW HAMPSHE IR DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY TELLS US... THEY'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE F-A-A REGIONALPE ORATIS ON CENTER... WHO SAYS THERE WAS NO MILITARY PLANE ACTIVITY OVER THE STATE THEIER. (SOT JOHN EBEL) <4:10 "I WOULD LOOK FOR A NATURAL EVENT -- SOMETHING COMING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE PAST THE SPEED OF SOUND -- METEOR, METEORITE -- THAT PROBABLY CAUSED ENOUGH ENERGY THAT PEOPLE HEARD IT HERE ON THE GROUND 4:27> WHILE HE DOESN'T KNOW FOR SURE THAT IT WAS A METEOR OR ME (BUTTON) GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Your Email Address ____________________ (BUTTON) Submit [48]Privacy Notice Advertisement People across southern New Hampshire report loud boom, shaking USGS: no indication of earthquake; FAA: no record of military plane activity Share * * * Copy Link (BUTTON) ____________________ (BUTTON) Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! WMUR Updated: 10:20 PM EDT Oct 10, 2021 [49]Scott Cook [50]News Reporter By Duncan Shaw WMUR viewers from across a wide area of southern and central New Hampshire reported hearing either a boom or felt shaking Sunday morning, but it's not clear what caused it.One person in Fitzwilliam who emailed WMUR said they felt about 10 seconds of shaking around 11:30 a.m.Another emailer from Merrimack said they heard a huge bang and their house shook.A third person in Goffstown said the shaking caused a picture on the wall to fall.Viewers in from more than 40 towns including Rindge, New Boston, Hillsboro, Greenfield, Goffstown, Peterborough, Chichester, Nashua and even Lebanon, Maine and Winchendon, Massachusetts also made similar reports."First thing was like a huge thump, like a very heavy person had landed on their heels on our second floor," Weare resident Richard Bossart said. "We called up to our son on the second floor who replied, 'It wasn't me!'" Several police departments in southwest New Hampshire were dispatched to investigate reports of a loud boom, but nothing has been found.Neither Weston Observatory nor the U.S. Geological Survey has reported any earthquakes in New Hampshire on Sunday."We see nothing on our seismic stations that indicate that there was any earthquake activity in the middle of the day in New Hampshire," said scientist John Ebel from the Weston Observatory. Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado told WMUR he checked the seismographs for the New Hampshire area from Sunday morning and said he did not see anything that looked like an earthquake.Paul Raymond with the New Hampshire Department of Safety told WMUR that the FAA Regional Operations Center had no military plane activity over the state this morning. He also said statewide 911 only received one report of the boom and no calls to State Police. >> MORE FROM WMUR: Coos County COVID-19 cases climb, Berlin mayor reacts MANCHESTER, N.H. — WMUR viewers from across a wide area of southern and central New Hampshire reported hearing either a boom or felt shaking Sunday morning, but it's not clear what caused it. One person in Fitzwilliam who emailed WMUR said they felt about 10 seconds of shaking around 11:30 a.m. Advertisement Another emailer from Merrimack said they heard a huge bang and their house shook. A third person in Goffstown said the shaking caused a picture on the wall to fall. Viewers in from more than 40 towns including Rindge, New Boston, Hillsboro, Greenfield, Goffstown, Peterborough, Chichester, Nashua and even Lebanon, Maine and Winchendon, Massachusetts also made similar reports. "First thing was like a huge thump, like a very heavy person had landed on their heels on our second floor," Weare resident Richard Bossart said. "We called up to our son on the second floor who replied, 'It wasn't me!'" Several police departments in southwest New Hampshire were dispatched to investigate reports of a loud boom, but nothing has been found. Neither Weston Observatory nor the U.S. Geological Survey has reported any earthquakes in New Hampshire on Sunday. "We see nothing on our seismic stations that indicate that there was any earthquake activity in the middle of the day in New Hampshire," said scientist John Ebel from the Weston Observatory. Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado told WMUR he checked the seismographs for the New Hampshire area from Sunday morning and said he did not see anything that looked like an earthquake. Paul Raymond with the New Hampshire Department of Safety told WMUR that the FAA Regional Operations Center had no military plane activity over the state this morning. He also said statewide 911 only received one report of the boom and no calls to State Police. >> MORE FROM WMUR: [51]Coos County COVID-19 cases climb, Berlin mayor reacts Loading more articles... 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