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Source of loud boom in California foothills a mystery

Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:40
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August 26, 2012CALIFORNIA - People from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them. “I thought it was thunder,” said one person. “It’s definitely not thunder; too consistent. I thought it was just mining,” said another person. “I always considered them to be sonic booms from flying aircrafts for years,” said Loring Brunius, owner of Sierra Rock Diamond Quarry. People who live near Pleasant Valley say their days have been interrupted by loud booms, shaking the floor beneath them. “You can feel it in the ground, no question about it. But no one’s been able to figure out why,” said Pleasant Valley resident Peter O’Grady. “I tend to hear somewhere between four to six of these things during the weekdays usually between 11 p.m. and 2 p.m. “Boom, boom, boom, boom just like that,” said Lorren Gonzales, who lives near Pleasant Valley. Some think the booms are from nearby wineries using propane cannons to scare away birds. “We’ve never done it and I don’t know of any other winery that does,” said Carrie Bendick, a winemaker at Holly’s Hill Winery. According to USGS, there aren’t enough seismic stations to pinpoint the exact location. Meanwhile, some say the booms have been around so long and happen so often they barely notice them anymore. Still, others want to solve the mystery. “I would like to know what it is, yeah. And I’d like to know when it’s going to stop too,” said O’Grady.  CBS13 spoke to Fallon Naval Air Station that said any supersonic flight operations they do are only allowed over Dixie Valley, which is hundreds of miles away. Some think illegal mining could be the source of the sounds, but Brunius doubts that theory. He said if that was the case, the culprit would have been caught by now. –CBS
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  • Yes, these sounds and other phenomena associated with them are not good, I think. And I think we will have a bad earthquake there, there (and especially when the Cascadian subduction zone slips?) which would also affect not only the San Andreas at the top portion, but all of northern Cali and Oregon and WAshington states, and Vancouver.

    And all those children and young people in schools, they are told to ‘get under your desks’ or ‘stand next to the walls’ and in a mega quake this will not be safe, most will die, if they are in a mega quake of 9 or over, which was the last Cascadian one’s magnitude.

    Our children are in schools which are not built to withstand that, so the triangle of Life should be used as the protocol, in case they cannot be outside quickly, which should be made priority and is possible. The problem is, even though the fix is quick and could be very cheap, (to get them large doors which can be opened quickly to outside in every room, #1, and #2, Triangle of Life which could be done in one day, (newspaper rows bound and stacked in each room including bathroom and cafeteria) the ptb schoolboards who are in charge of policy do not want the children to be saved.

    Parents need to know this.

    Same situation in the New Madrid fault zone states. Those schools are not built to take a megaquake, and that policy is a death guarantee for most of the children in those buildings.

    this is the plan.

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