San Diego Earthquake

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San Diego residents experienced a loud boom and a slight shaking of the earth. San Diegans took the loud noise and shaking as another earthquake in the area. US Geological Survey immediately took to the searching the origins of the loud sound and the associated shaking felt. It was revealed that the affect has been produced as a result of supersonic air craft making it to the skies. It is not the first time that a sonic boom is mistaken as an earthquake; a similar phenomenon was observed in 2006.

However there remain some question in the minds of the people who observed the shaking and the sound, then it should have happened every time a jet flies over the San Diego area, however obviously that is not the case. Addressing the question seismologist have viewed that most probably weather conditions and the direction and speed of wind is to blame that amplified the sound to the degree that it shook the massive structures.