The Difference Between a Sonic Boom and an Earthquake. According to the USGS, they would not use seismic instruments to measure a sonic boom, as they occur in the atmosphere rather than on the ground.

In 2021, an F-16 jet corrected course while flying over central Illinois, creating a large sonic boom as it broke the sound barrier. The sound shook neighborhoods in Illinois and Oregon, where ...

Residents of the Long Beach and Orange County area reported a mysterious shaking just after 8 a.m. Monday. A seismologist says it wasn't an earthquake.

Both an earthquake and sonic boom shook parts of the Treasure Coast Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. About three hours apart, the magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck at about 10:48 p.m ...

L OS ANGELES, CA — Southern California residents may hear a loud boom Saturday night, and it won't be the Disneyland fireworks, a quake or a crash to blame. It will be a sonic boom created by a ...

The F-100 Super Sabre, introduced in 1954, was the first U.S. warplane that could go supersonic in level flight. It was also the plane that sparked complaints about sonic booms across the country ...

A handful of people expressed similar shock, but others were quick to reassure: the boom came from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch in Cape Canaveral. The rocket launched at 10:25 a.m., sending 105 ...

Boom Supersonic might have snatched aviation’s holy grail after announcing on Monday that its XB-1 test plane had completed its maiden supersonic flight two weeks ago without producing a sonic ...

That loud boom was, in fact, a sonic boom from a F-15 fighter jet. In a Facebook post , Robins Air Force Base says it happened over Central Georgia at around 3:30 p.m.

A Jackson State University student and member of the Sonic Boom of the South has died, according to social media posts by the university's president and marching band.. Officials with the Sonic ...

A sonic boom from military jets racing toward a private aircraft that had crossed into restricted airspace startled hundreds in the Washington, DC area who heard the explosive sound.