Meteor crashes in the North Island

Bellbird

Bellbird

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Yesterday,Thursday, about 2pm. being a cold wet day I was sitting quietly reading, the next thing I heard 2 explosions and felt the house tremble. My original thought wow, that's a god one, thinking it was an earthquake, or maybe someone letting off explosives.
Listening to the tv at night it was reported a Meteor had been heard and sighted in the lower North Island.
There is a rush now for the scientists to suss out just where it landed, obviously for scientific purposes.
I am a good 4 hour trip from Wellington, so what an explosion to be heard up here.!!
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/07/wellington-meteor-shock-wave-picked-up-by-earthquake-sensors/
 

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Yesterday,Thursday, about 2pm. being a cold wet day I was sitting quietly reading, the next thing I heard 2 explosions and felt the house tremble. My original thought wow, that's a god one, thinking it was an earthquake, or maybe someone letting off explosives.
Listening to the tv at night it was reported a Meteor had been heard and sighted in the lower North Island.
There is a rush now for the scientists to suss out just where it landed, obviously for scientific purposes.
I am a good 4 hour trip from Wellington, so what an explosion to be heard up here.!!
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/07/wellington-meteor-shock-wave-picked-up-by-earthquake-sensors/
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How exciting! I would have been one of the nutty people trying to find it, for sure.
 

Wow! If I read the article correctly, it was actually the "sonic boom" rather than the impact of the meteor that set off the seismometers. That was one heck of a LOUD boom!!! It must have been deafening for those near it.
 
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