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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Rashmon, Mar 22, 2012.

  1. Rashmon

    Rashmon Contributing Member

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    Clintonville hires engineering firm to explore mysterious booms
    ASSOCIATED PRESS March 22, 2012 9:14AM

    CLINTONVILLE, Wis. — The eastern Wisconsin community where intermittent booming has kept some residents up at night will hire an engineering firm to explore the cause of the racket.

    Clintonville administrator Lisa Kuss said Thursday the engineering firm will install four ground seismology monitors around the city to determine whether there’s an epicenter to the noises that seem to be underground. Ruekert & Mielke, of Waukesha, will analyze the data once engineers get a good reading. Kuss says it’s not known how long that will take. She says the city will spend up to $7,000 on the effort.

    Kuss says a handful of calls early Thursday to police reported some minor booms, unlike previous nights when dozens of calls were placed to dispatchers about explosion-like sounds that roused residents from their sleep.

    Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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  2. leroy

    leroy Contributing Member

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    ToyCen, what is the meaning of this?
     
  4. across110thstreet

    across110thstreet Contributing Member

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    ToyCen does not have access the BBS Hangout
     
  5. Jontro

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    So Diablo 3 is finally coming out?

    Well played Bioware, well played.
     
  6. R0ckets03

    R0ckets03 Contributing Member

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    lol...when did this happen and why?
     
  7. R0ckets03

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    Ron Paul.
     
  9. HombreDeHierro

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    sounds like Super 8
     
  10. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    boom boom boom, let's go back to ...

    .. the 80's!
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    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-2XlKqCTXFg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
  12. trueroxfan

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    Heard abt this on the radio this morning. I am very curious to find out what it is!
     
  13. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Fracking horrible.
     
  14. MIAGI99

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    H.A.A.R.P testing
     
  15. RedRedemption

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    Oh hell no.
    Please end the world AFTER Diablo 3 comes out. :grin:
     
  16. boomboom

    boomboom I GOT '99 PROBLEMS
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    pffffttttt. Dumbasses.


    http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/23/us/wisconsin-noises-earthquake/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

    Authorities solve the mystery of town's odd noises, shaking

    Clintonville, Wisconsin (CNN) -- The mystery behind four days of unexplained shaking and odd sounds rattling Clintonville, Wisconsin, has been solved.

    The cause? A "swarm" of minor earthquakes amplified by the unique bedrock beneath the state of Wisconsin.

    The strange sounds -- variously described as rattling pipes, clanging metal, thunder or firecrackers -- have continued on and off since early Sunday night in just one part of the small town of 4,600, located about 180 miles northeast of Madison. They were loud enough Monday morning that a CNN journalist could hear them during a cell phone conversation with city administrator Lisa Kuss.

    Speaking to Clintonville residents Thursday night, Kuss said the U.S. Geological Survey has determined that "our community did in fact experience an earthquake that registered 1.5 on the earthquake magnitude scale." That minor quake was measured on Tuesday night by several mobile earthquake monitoring stations that were dispatched to the region, she said..

    Based on all the data, the USGS believes the shaking and strange sounds are the result of "a swarm of several small earthquakes in a very short amount of time," Kuss said.

    While these small earthquakes normally don't cause such commotion, Kuss said the location of the shallow temblors helped amplify the shaking.

    "In other places in the United States, a 1.5 earthquake would not be felt," she said. "But the type of rock that Wisconsin has transmits seismic energy very well."

    When the shaking began last Sunday, hundreds of residents began calling 911. Kerry Danley said she hear noises around midnight that sounded like a paintball gun.

    "It was just pop-pop-pop," she said. "So I woke up -- just jumped out of bed actually -- ran downstairs, looked outside, nothing.

    Since Sunday, the shaking has happened nearly every night, quieting down during the day. Absent of any explanations, residents were left to their own devices to come up with explanations.

    "My bet is on gremlins," one Facebook user jokingly posted to WLUK's Facebook page. Alien machinery buried for millennia, countered another.

    No, said one one tongue-in-cheek Twitter user. It's clearly mole men launching their attack on the surface dwellers.

    Others suggested huge earthworms or sewer cats. Some Clintonville residents were even holding "shake" parties at night, waiting for the rumbling.

    As city officials ruled out electrical explosions, gas leaks and sewer collapses, they started consulting geological experts around the country. Based on the data from eight seismic monitoring stations, Kuss said the USGS finally determined on Thursday that earthquakes were to blame.

    While the cause of the shaking has been solved, it's still not clear if the rattling in Clintonville is over, Kuss said.

    "There is no way to say for certain whether our area will ever again experience an earthquake," she said. "But it still very likely, although not guaranteed, that any future earthquakes that we experience would again be on the low end of the earthquake magnitude scale."
     
  17. Yung-T

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    ^^
    I call BS, they just want to hide the aliens they found there centuries ago and let them live there in exchange for top secret, groundbreaking technology. The government fools you people!!!!
     

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