UPDATE 1/26: Mystery Solved. The rumble is thought to have come from the air and not the earth. A military company named Pacific Aerospace admits to causing the tremors. The company says they were blasting to bond metals. Pacific Aerospace is 40 miles away, as the crow flys, in Sequim, Washington, USA.
If those explosions caused people’s bedroom furniture to shift at a distance of 40 miles away, then I can’t imagine what it must have been like within a 20 mile radius. Seems like a case for a nuisance claim. The US is like a noisy neighbor that will never move. The Windsor, Ontario “hum” is thought to originate from Zug Island near Detroit (this has not been proven). See the post here.
Thank you commenter Keri for this update. You can see the video explaining the Vancouver rumble here.
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(Insert 1/27) Ahhh, what a good night’s sleep can do. Not to be all conspiratorial, but furniture shifting 40 miles from a blast seems like cause for concern. Also, unless I missed something they said the company only blasted once and the rumble was heard over two days. Did the company just start blasting? Just sayin’. More than likely with the rumble being unexplained the media was looking for any explanation they could find.
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(Insert #2 – 1/27) An interesting article from MSNBC here. The article says:
All in all, audible sounds from earthquakes might be perceived even when shaking is not, Hill suggested. For instance, while earthquakes are rare in coastal North Carolina, they are relatively common in the Charleston area of South Carolina, the site of the 1886 magnitude 7.6 Charleston quake, and the Catskill Mountains that Seneca Lake is located within do host low-level earthquake activity. Locals could be hearing an earthquake that is too small for them to feel.
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I appreciate when people send me tips and I will credit you. I’m having a hard time because the net is flooded with fakes. If you feel something is worth talking about, post in the comments. If I feel it’s worth looking into I may or may not write about it. Any info is good…When the World Sings, which is relevant, came from commenter tips.
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Over the past two days Residents in Sooke, Vancouver Island, Canada, have been experiencing rumbles that some believe are small earthquakes. Not so, says the Pacific Geo-Science Center. “This is not an earthquake, it will be interesting to find out what it is, it’s something of a mystery,” said seismologist, Alison Bird.
Marge Elliot, a Sooke resident says “I heard what sounded like a freight train coming, that rumbled, and it was very brief. My bed actually shifted.”
I found an article from 2009 about an unexplained sky boom in Vancouver here. I can’t say if it’s related, but seismologists also ruled out an earthquake at that time. Lately, we’ve recorded a number of sky booms around the U.S. here. And two new ones in Brazil and Kentucky here.
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
Also this video below from Island News in Victoria from June, 2010 shows an example of unexplained high-pitched sounds there.
Even though there was no seismic activity reported in this case, there was a 6.4 earthquake off Vancouver Island in September of 2011 here. Vancouver also had a major earthquake in 1946, see here.
I don’t think there’s anything weird going on here. I have a feeling all of these mysteries including the high-pitched sound are simply related to seismic activity.
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Here is a link to a broadcast by CHEK News.
Their explanation is blasting by our neighbours in the USA.
It is an interesting clip.
http://video.cheknews.ca/services/player/bcpid1163895202001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAA4mHNTzE~,ejlzBnGUUKYsSfyWUqWNgSfdmpadk3-L&bctid=1414606194001
yeah, and seismograph didn`t notice any shake during the blast even if it`s so sensitive to any shake that people can`t feel:) logical hehe
High pitch sounds are not from earthquakes, but the rumbling and the booms if they are short then they are probably from some explosion or even from a military plane that broke the sound barrier close by.
All cases of hums, rumbles, etc that are of interest are long lasting, not short.
ahhhhhhhhhhh the earthquake sensors in Victoria did NOT register anything,,, they can pick up a chicken scratching near the compound.. so why would the “blast” as is being reported here from the USA not show up on the sensors?
Not to be all conspiratorial but furniture shifting 40 miles from a blast seems like cause for concern. Also unless I missed something they said the company only blasted once and the rumble was heard over two days.
It may sound strange but if it was only one building that was effected and the rest didn’t feel anything then it’s possible that it was from a blast.
That is because something can resonate with a specific frequency even in such distances.
There was a case in Cyprous if i’m not mistaken that from a small quake in the one side of the island, a building collapsed in the other side of the island out of nowhere (ok some smart ass had placed a 2 tone marble fireplace in the second floor without checking the buildings strength characteristics).
If the whole town felt it in such distance and it was also in times that there was no blasting then obviously it’s something else.
I Think all this stuff that people are saying is B.S because i haven’t heard nothing and i think people get a kick out of scaring others..I also think people are so caught up in it is so GUILABUL.. Just like i think the whole thing about the END is near is the end of the Academic Calander and a New Future.. So to all the People that Believe in all this crap just stop and think for yourselves before you listen to what other people have to say thats all i have to say…. WHY would you listen to others just think of that women and her two kids when last year on May 21 2011 when every one was saying that was the end that poor women killed her kids and herself because of that like come on people what is the matter for all of you so pathetic ugh……………..
Um…you should read the blog before commenting. No one said the end is near.
@Miss Russell
First, periods and commas would allow the rest of us to better appreciate your post (in all of its eloquence).
Second, you would be much more persuasive in your argument/opinion if you actually had a clue as to what we are trying to do here. Please go back and peruse the posts of those you would deem “pathetic.” I’m not sure that you understand the meaning of the word as it relates to this blog.
I live in Sooke, BC & felt both/heard bothe rumblings on Tuesday & until last night I thought maybe it was the blasting in Washington but last night we had a thunderstorm – the exact same rumble/shaking but it was dark out so we could see the lightening. Tuesday was on & off sunny cloudy & rainy periods …. The rolling thunder is exactly the same as Tuesday.
I guess we don’t consider it warm enough for thunderstorms & the island doesn’t see many …. I just understand why or how we all forgot including myself that it could’ve been thunder!!!
These aren’t hoaxes at all. This stuff is happening all around the world with relitivly close “pulses” but still different.
This is nothing to worry about.
We all know sound is a wave. And a speaker is essentially a magnet mounted on a cone and pulsed with electricity to make waves audible for humans. And even NASA confirms that we are experiencing a time of high solar flare activity. If anyone chooses to do any research they will find these “solar storms” and “sky noise” are all on the same days (for the most part, I can’t fully claim they are ALL legitimate tapes)
These flares end up effecting our magnetic field around the earth (proven by science) and it ends up sending a low and elongated frequency which obviously rises above 20Hz as it travels further and stretches out in order for it to be audible for human ears.
I suggest that you DON’T believe what I’m telling you until you go do the research for yourself. All the info is open and out there for anyone to see.
Not to be picky or any thing but the heading should be, Sooke on Vancouver Island mystery not Vancouver mystery. I live in Sooke too and herd and felt both sounds and the big blasting across the way makes sense to me. I hear the US Navy machine guns and canons once in a while too. But I did hear the thunder the other night and I have never herd thunder like that in my life, it seemed to go on and on and I only could see the lighting strikes once in a while. It all sound dangerous to me and could you be a little quieter over there please!
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The real reports of sound match up with the HAARP seisometer activity dates and times in Alaska. Earthquakes are causing this I think. Very low subsonic frequencies are very long and require time and distance to become audible . Maybe these are sounds off the atmosphere.
Can you provide links to these reports?
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Okay first things first… If this was a huge issue, and such a mystery WE WOULD OF ALL HEARD THIS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!!
Stop panicing about sounds, or rumbls. Sounds like one big hoax to me for one person to hear it and not the other. If these were so massive, aswell as loud Why didnt I hear this?… And to even be fooled by it is another thing that alarms me.
This stuff would be ALLLLLL over the news, and EVERYONE would know about it.
Nothing is going on, and non of this adds up.
The net is full of crap like this, so why even listen to it, or believe it?
I could run out to my back yard, and tape record a truck going by saying its a bloody aircraft no one can see and get away with it, because people fall for this stuff all the time!
We have been having earthquakes since day one, wars, and shoot outs…. Now we have strange sounds everyone is worried about? I will believe it when I see or hear it, cause it sounds like a bunch of bull to me.
Like really guys? Get a grip, and stop wasting your time on this stuff! Start living your lives. Go video tape your kids laughing, or something funny a friend does. Start posting up those and get reviews!
It was Rolling thunder – days later in Sooke at night there was a thunder & lightening storm – which sounded & felt exactly the same as the two other earthquake like rumbles – no one is posting a hoax or imagining it. It’s unfortunate that Sooke news didn’t cover the thunder & lightening storm as its rare for that time of year. It shook the house exactly the same & was exactly the same as those two daytime rumbles that are a “mystery” .
Whoa relax! I don’t think anyone here is neglecting their children or lying awake at night wondering what is happening. And why do you have an opinion on this if you didn’t hear anything? It’s just interesting and makes for interesting conversation. I’d rather discuss the things that happen in our community, I live in sooke, and do to get away from ignorant people. I suppose you would rather talk about what Kim kardashian is wearing and what colors you should be wearing this season.
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