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Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns & Others Earthquake Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds Continued from Page 40 These lakes are much too small to have any military vessels on them, and no navigable rivers connect them to the ocean or to the Great Lakes. Earthquakes are also a possible cause. In southeastern North Carolina, earthquake lists show seven events between 1871 and 1968. Each event was reported by people who felt it or heard it. The problem with the earthquake explanation is that something that is felt or heard that strongly should have been recorded on nearby seismographs (these are the instruments that record ground shaking for seismologists to analyze). A seismologist in Virginia who has tried, has never been able to plate boundaries near the east coast. The nearest Most of us, including me, would be eager to match any of the reported Seneca guns with his plate boundaries are in the middle of the share a really big secret with friends and family, seismograph records, and he has tried lots of Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea. and if we weren’t lots of reporters would be glad times over the years. The article at - Pockets of air being released: air can fill to do it for us. http://www.farshores.org/ reports on a boom small pores between particles of soil, and cracks - Indian ghosts firing guns to disturb that occurred near Charleston, SC, sometime in rock, but it’s not held in pockets that are tight descendants of settlers who took their land: during the week before Aug. 2, 2003. enough to contain it under pressure. If the air is you made the best assessment of this Seismologists at Columbia, SC, and at not under pressure, its release would not make suggestion: “we want an explanation, not a Charleston examined their seismograph records booms or shake the ground. ghost story”. and could find nothing at the time of the boom. - Methane released from the ocean floor or - Lightning: Some of the Seneca guns have It’s particularly interesting that the seismologist lake bottoms and exploding when it rises to been reported in clear weather. in Charleston, where the boom was reported, the surface and contacts the air: there is did not find any record of an earthquake. The methane buried under the ocean floor and Conclusion article does not mention any shaking. Of course, bottoms of lakes. It forms from the gradual seismographs have only been widespread since decay of buried plants and microscopic animals. There does not appear to be any agreement on the 1960s, and they were few and far between Sometimes the methane can seep upward to what causes the Seneca guns. They have been before then. We can’t tell whether or not older ground level. However, it does not come up occurring in several places around the eastern Seneca guns would have been recorded by suddenly enough or in large enough amounts to U.S. and in India for at least a century or two. seismographs if the instruments existed then. cause explosions. Also, burning methane makes As far as I can tell, they have worried people but flames, and a couple of the articles that Google they have never caused damage or injury. The What is probably NOT the cause listed point out that flames have not been Earth is a complex place and there is a lot about reported at the times and locations of Seneca it that we don’t understand. Perhaps someday - Tidal wave: any wave large enough to guns. we will understand what causes Seneca guns, produce shaking and booms on land would have - New faults forming: fracturing rock to but right now we don’t understand what makes been reported. I have not found any reports of produce a new fault, as well as moving an them. However, they do not seem to pose a tidal waves. existing fault, should produce an earthquake. threat to anyone. - Landslides off the continental shelf: these We’ve already examined earthquakes. have happened in the geologic past, but I don’t - Cold air meeting warm Gulf Stream air: the Publisher’s Note: know of any reports that they happened during articles that I’ve read which suggest this cause recorded history. The main effect of large do not explain how it would operate. Two The scientific community also dispels claims landslides under the ocean would be tidal results might be thunder and lightning, but that there is any connection to Earthquake waves, which we’ve already considered. Seneca guns have been reported in clear Booms, Seneca Guns, and Other Sounds that we - Industrial disasters, like the Chernobyl weather as well as stormy. have discussed in this article and UFOs, Time explosion: anything that large would be - Meteor exploding in the atmosphere: this Warps, Worm Holes, Time Travelers or any reported. There would be no way to hide the suggestion would have to be evaluated by an other type of paranormal event since there is no news because too many people nearby would expert in meteorites. It’s a possible cause, but evidence whatsoever to support any of these have seen, heard, and felt the blast, and there my guess is that any meteorite large enough to claims. [] might be injuries too. cause something as strong as a Seneca gun - Global warming: the articles that suggest this would be much rarer than Seneca guns. If my don’t offer any explanation of how a gradual guess is correct, then exploding meteors might warming of the atmosphere would produce explain a few Seneca guns but not most of them. something as sudden as a loud boom. Also, - Top secret military activity: the problem global warming would affect the whole globe, with this explanation is that it’s too easy. whereas Seneca guns have only been reported Centuries ago people called on magic the same from a few areas. way. There’s no way to disprove this idea as a - A hole in the ozone layer: holes in the ozone cause of Seneca guns, because if it’s top secret layer form over the north and south poles, not we won’t know about it, but I’ve never seen any over the U.S. or India. The reasons why they reason to take the explanation seriously. Sure, form are well understood, although I don’t the military has lots of secrets, but something understand them myself because I’m a big enough to cause Seneca guns in so many geologist, and the reasons apply only to polar regions, including India, would be really hard to areas. keep secret. One of the great things about - Shifts of tectonic plates: there are no tectonic America is that it’s hard to keep big secrets here.