The loud booms

[TEGlover]

In the past when in the Sups. You would hear a loud boom. It could be on a nice spring day ... no clouds, thus no thunder. But all of a sudden there would be a BOOM.

My question is has anyone heard the booms lately? When was the last time someone heard one?

Thomas

 

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[reale bill]

it happens a lot off the Md./ Va. coast. Jets from Patuxent Naval Air Station flying out over the ocean breaking the sound barrier. are there any military air bases near where you are ?

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Sonic boom, rec. shooters using tannerite, etc.

 

[somehiker]

I've heard the "Thunder God"? three times while hiking out there. But not for a few years now.
Each time it was clear and hot.....a deep and very loud boom, followed by a period of echoes which sounded something like a long train crossing an iron bridge.
Another time, while hiking back to my car from Tortilla Ranch, I heard several similar-sounding booms. I had just started the drive back to town when I heard it again, but just down the road, and on a rise across from the corral/loading ramp was a group of shooters. One had a Barrett .50 set up on a table and let off a couple of rounds while I watched. Definitely what I had been hearing an hour or so earlier, but not as deep sounding or quite as loud as those I had heard on the other occasions....( lower frequency ?)....which were singular events.
As far as I know, the "booms" pre-date supersonic jets. Is that true Thomas ?

Regards:SH.

 

[somehiker]

it happens a lot off the Md./ Va. coast. Jets from Patuxent Naval Air Station flying out over the ocean breaking the sound barrier. are there any military air bases near where you are ?

Most of the Superstition Wilderness lies within a Military Operations Area...... shown as "OUTLAW MOA" on the aviation charts.
But too close to a major population center for supersonic flight maneuvers to be authorized nowadays.

Regards:SH.

 

[audigger53]

I was up there and heard some good booms, later ran into a guy that had been shooting his Black Powder Sharp's 50. Williams AFB is also close by Chandler.

 

[deducer]

I wonder if those loud booms are the results of fault slips deep underneath the Supes.

The below quote concerned a similar incident in Texas but could probably apply to this phenomenon in the Supes.

"They're actually hearing the wave that traveled through the rock all the way to the Earth's surface," says William Ellsworth, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "When a fault slips suddenly underground, it radiates two different kinds of seismic waves."

One is a P wave, an acoustic wave that you can actually hear. The other is an S wave.
"It's the wave that carries most of the energy, and it's the one that we typically feel," Ellsworth says.

 

[audigger53]

I wonder if those loud booms are the results of fault slips deep underneath the Supes.

The below quote concerned a similar incident in Texas but could probably apply to this phenomenon in the Supes.

If you can hear the slippage, you will also notice the shaking. IMO