Sonic boom caused Yorkshire tremors

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 22, 2001| Author: Paul Sims | Copyright information

A SONIC boom caused a series of tremors that rattled windows and shook buildings along a 25-mile stretch of coast yesterday, earthquake experts have concluded.

Seismologists from the British Geological Survey said a large number of tremors had been reported from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, where residents complained of a "bang, a boom and a rumble".

Glenn Ford, a seismologist for the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, who was tracking the tremors, said: "We h...

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