Insert 1/15: Some interesting info here. An earthquake offshore in Oregon. The largest on record. Link is here.
———–
Have you missed me? Well, it’s back to normal for “strange sound” videos. The internet was so flooded with fakes, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack for what I believe to be genuine sky events. Back to normal means people have slowed down on making these crap fakes. It’s a bit easier now but it also means fewer videos. Before the Conklin mess, I found a video maybe every few days and a super convincing one every few weeks. Now we get down to the business of cataloguing somewhat convincing videos. After the post below in Oregon it’s going to be pretty hard to top, but I’m sure something will pop up that rivals it.
As you may recall a few weeks ago I did a post on a mystery rumble in Sooke, Vancouver Island here. The rumble was deemed atmospheric in origin by seismologist. A witness claimed it was so intense that her bed actually shifted. Also here is the official explanation tracing the sound to military industry in Sequim, Washington.
Then I did a piece on “sky roaring” in Whidbey Island, Washington here. I think we may finally be hearing what these rumbles sound like in the video below.
Filmed in Skagit County, Washington State on February 9th, the person filming this event says the rumble lasted for 10 minutes and was much louder the night before. The rumble is fairly continuous and doesn’t sound like thunder to me. That the same rumble occurred two nights in a row makes it less likely to be thunder. It could be, but I think she wouldn’t have bothered recording it if it really sounded like thunder.
She appears to have started filming inside her house and you can hear it clearly. She then steps outside continuing to record it. If you start at the 5:40 mark it’s quite loud. Turn up your volume. She remarks that it’s very loud. I suspect it was loud and the camera didn’t pick it up that well. Listen for the persistent rumble over the wind sound.
—–
Cascadia Subduction Zone
INSERT 1/9: Thank you Moriah from the comments! Great idea here. She suggested rumbling from something called the Cascadia subduction zone. From wiki:
The Cascadia subduction zone (also referred to as the Cascadia fault) is a subduction zone, a type of convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northernCalifornia. It is a very long sloping fault that separates the Juan de Fuca and North Americaplates.
New ocean floor is being created offshore of Washington and Oregon. As more material wells up along the ocean ridge, the ocean floor moves toward and beneath the continent.
—–
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
Sooke, Whidbey, Sequim, Skagit County, Mount Vernon
The YT poster doesn’t say exactly where in Skagit County she is located, so I based the location on the county seat. I’m going to add this event to our map. No reason to think it’s not real because the title of the video is simply “Rumbling” and she has no search tags. We now have the event in Sooke, Whidbey Island, Sequim, and now Skagit County. It’s interesting in the map how they connect.
Missed you JayMan!
It does sound like a jet but jets don’t sound like that unless you live near a airforce base which I do and you hear jets just sitting there with their engines on etc..
In the next 24 hours we have some more solar flares heading our way so I wounded if we will get a lot more strange sounds being reported..
Perhaps, and if we do, it could be evidence that it’s related to sun flares.
Rumbling from Cascadia subduction zone? Maybe some ocean floor was being chewed up.
Wow!!!…This sounds very, very much like what my brother recorded, the one I described in my post!! I hope to have it from him soon to post. To me this too sounds like those old radios when searching for a station, almost like loud static…his recording is much louder. Believe me he`s is the real thing, even he has a hard time accepting it.
Sarah, I thought the “static” sound was the wind in the trees, and the “rumbling” was the periodic low or deep…. Well…. Rumble. Couldn’t hear it very well, and it sounded a bit like far off thunder. (I’m off to check the weather for that area on the 9th. )
Well, this is weird… February 9th at 9:15 pm, the winds were calm, the sky was cloudy, and no rain. She said in the video that there was a breeze, but it sounded to me like there was a stiff wind. So… I’m at a loss as to what I was hearing. Here is a link to the forecast I found: http://weatherforyou.com/reports/index.php?config=&forecast=obarchive&icao=KAWO&day=4&place=skagit+county&state=wa&zipcode=&country=us&county=53057&zone=WAZ518&icao=KAWO
I think it was the low steady consistent rumble. The reason I didn’t dismiss this was because it was two nights in a row.
Oh, and as far as tectonic/earthquake activity in the area, according to earthquake-report.com there was nothing even remotely close to the area on the 9th. There was a 4.6 on the Alaska peninsula at 6:26 am, but nothing else on the West Coast that day. Here’s the link:
http://earthquake-report.com/2012/02/09/earthquakes-list-february-9-2012/
Hooray! Your back
Thats, quite strange, ive heard low rumbling before, but I usually dismiss it as an airplane. I live in Kitsap County, WA. And really havn’t heard anything yet, and im a night owl. But i will most definitly keep an ear out for anything, and keep the camera close. And if its the Cascadia Subduction Zone crumbling, thats going to suck really bad lol. But once again thank you for your awesome website. Some amazing stuff
The volume does indeed need to be turned up, since all I could otherwise hear was the wind in the trees. But the rumble is definately there. I live in Western Washington state, and have never heard of a rumble sound that’s associated with subduction zones, but I suppose it’s a possibility. Having experienced a few earthquakes here, rumble sounds are of course associated with earthquakes, but none seems to have been occurring at the time.
Thanks for posting this video.
Did you found this video from this forum? http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread807143/pg4
Actually I just stumbled upon it. Didn’t realize it was covered there. But I do sometimes look around there.
i live in humboldt co ca. there have also been rumbling sounds that have frightened me…but house did not shake. and other sounds like trucks that whistle in front of the door…
Hello. Thaught I would let you all know we have been hearing that hum noise here in the Mason County area for several months now and as Ii type this tonight 11:30 pm and ongoing.
Earth shake not an Earth Quake
I am from Vancouver Island BC.
Thought you would be interested in another story about yet another violent ‘boom’… this one on Thursday March 15… and it knocked down a barn. Still explaining as the metal fusing plant accross the water in the USA.
http://video.cheknews.ca/services/player/bcpid1011606683001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAA4mHNTzE~,ejlzBnGUUKY1gXVPwEwEepl35Y795rND&bclid=975107450001&bctid=1514054117001
Pingback: Mysterious Sooke Rumble is Back: This Time it Took Down an Old Barn « Strange Sounds in the Sky
Hello,
We lived in Olalla, wa for about 8 years then moved out to mason county (about 20 miles away). In both places we hear this loud “boom” sound. Sometimes at night, sometimes during the day. It happens probably once a month or so. It’s louder out here in mason county. Anyone have any idea what it is. Sometimes its so loud it shakes the windows.
McChord Air force Base do drill practice with live rounds daily for a week except for Sunday. We hear them also.
Dec. 6 2012 930 am we have had rumbling noises the past few days, very loud. My boyfriend tells me its a train but i have lived in Skagit County Wa for 13 years and i have never heard anything like this before. It seems to get really loud then stop and then loud and then stop several times.
My wife and I heard it last night around 6:30 (and she heard it again around 2:30 am – it woke her up). Have lived up the hill from Conway, WA in Skagit County for over 20 years and never heard it before. It’s no train and it’s not jets overhead (military or otherwise). A little eerie – just like Jessica describes above.
I just heard rumbling twice in the last 15-20 minutes – lasted about 1.5 minutes the first time, ~ 1 minute the 2nd time. I have heard this rumbling noise intermittently over the past few months, usually during the day and sometimes at night. It lasts anywhere from less than a minute to 2-3 minutes, often with several distinctly separate rumblings in series over a span of 20 minutes of so. I live in south Mount Vernon, WA (Skagit County). It is definitely not jets (we get lots of training flyovers from Whidbey base and it’s not like that) I sounds to me more like underground noise – like drilling maybe, but the subduction suggestion would make sense (even if it is alarming, since this has been going on for months).
I live in Victoria BC, over looking Cordova Bay, and hear the rumble regularly. Most recently tonight march 5th at 10:14 pm
Roaring skys sedro woolley, tonight on and off from about 9:15 to 9:40.