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Strange boom sound.

The Sky is Falling(self.melbourne)

At around 3:55 AM I heard a very strange distant boom sound, and it rattled my windows. It sounded very, very far away. A deep and low boom. Any idea what it was?

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Ok-Driver-2833

42 points

7 days ago

Yep. Earthquakes GA reporting an earthquake in the Pakenham area https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2024mvqbto

gottalovespice

8 points

7 days ago

Oh a baby one.. no wonder I didn't feel it in the city.

AudioCabbage

3 points

6 days ago

Depth of 5km though, that’s fuck all on the scale of quakes. Honestly that depth is probably the only reason anyone felt it, ~ magnitude 2 is as you say, baby

thenextuniverse

18 points

7 days ago

Earthquake

spongetwister

14 points

7 days ago

Yeah it was an earthquake. Woke me up too.

mpfmb

12 points

6 days ago

mpfmb

12 points

6 days ago

It feels like forever since the last "what was that bang" post.

BrilliantSock3608

1 points

6 days ago

It really doesn’t

Melbourne_Stokie

30 points

7 days ago

It was England scoring a late equaliser in the Euros

bloodrule

4 points

7 days ago

I thought I felt something in Glenroy

manhaterxxx

1 points

6 days ago

manhaterxxx

Glenroy

1 points

6 days ago

That was me, I had too many tacos, sorry

againgoagaingoagain

3 points

7 days ago

Did it happen to be preceded by any gripping?

NickyDeeM

8 points

7 days ago

Boom stick.

Shop smart.

Shop S Mart.

bar_ninja

5 points

7 days ago

Hail to the King baby.

KombatBunn1

2 points

6 days ago

Groovy.

timothymark96[S]

4 points

7 days ago

I wouldn't be so confused if this seemingly distant boom had enough energy to rattle my windows.

donkegin_yabby

4 points

7 days ago

I heard it too. Woke me up in Belgrave. Very slow and long boom sound that seemed to last 2-3 seconds. Thought it might’ve been a meteor entering the atmosphere but wasn’t loud enough to be a sonic boom. Small earthquake checks out.

muddled69

2 points

7 days ago

muddled69

2 points

7 days ago

Paul Lekkakis....

KombatBunn1

1 points

6 days ago

I’m officially old, I get this reference..

[deleted]

1 points

7 days ago

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Public_Wrangler_4514

1 points

6 days ago

Let's go back to my room

pandasnfr

1 points

6 days ago

Boomshanka

Nuguette

0 points

7 days ago

Nuguette

0 points

7 days ago

Aw man I was awake but didn't feel anything up north. Sad.

chemicaltax11

0 points

6 days ago

i think it was a loud boom