Meteor triggers loud boom and shaking felt across Massachusetts - BERITAJA

A meteor walking astatine thens of thousands of miles an hr triggered a large roar and crushed shaking that were felt crossed Massachusetts connected Saturday afternoon.

NASA confirmed a fireball, meaning a agleam meteor, passed complete the authorities astatine 2:06 p.m. astatine an estimated velocity of 75,000 mph, releasing what it said was the balanced of about 300 tons of TNT upon breakup.

“It appears to person fragmented astatine an altitude of 40 miles supra utmost northeast Massachusetts/southeast New Hampshire,” NASA said successful a statement.

The fireball isn’t associated pinch an progressive meteor shower, NASA said, describing the arena arsenic “a earthy entity and not a re-entry of abstraction debris aliases a satellite.”

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said nationalist information officials received reports of “an audible boom” and tremors successful the eastbound portion of the state. The agency said location were nary known emergency constabulary aliases occurrence requests connected to the reports.

The United States Geological Survey described arena is simply a “widely felt sonic roar from a suspected bolide.”

“Unlike earthquakes which hap astatine discrete location successful the earth, sonic roar events hap on a linear way successful the atmosphere,” it said.

There was nary earthquake nor thing impacting the ground, the USGS said.