UPDATE: The mysterious "boom" heard in large parts of Bengaluru was infact the sonic boom of a test aircraft according to the Defence Ministry.?
?"It was a routine IAF Test Flight involving a supersonic profile which took off from Bluru Airport and flew in the allotted airspace well outside City limits. The aircraft was of Aircraft Systems and Testing Establishment (ASTE)," the Defence Ministry tweeted. "¡The sonic boom was probably heard while the aircraft was decelerating from supersonic to subsonic speed between 36,000 and 40000 feet altitude," it said.?
?"The aircraft was far away from the city limits when this occurred. The sound of a sonic boom can be heard and felt by an observer even when the aircraft is flying as far away as 65 to 80 kilometres away from the person," the ministry said.
The sound was heard from as far as the Bengaluru airport in Devanahalli to the IT hub of Electronic City 54 km away. It was also heard in Kalyan Nagar in east Bengaluru, central Bengaluru's MG Road and areas such as Marathahalli, Whitefield, Sarjapur and Hebbagodi.
Things seem to be getting weirder each passing day in 2020 and this time around Bengaluru residents were shocked after a mysterious a loud noise rattled the city.?
For the uninitiated, at around 1.20 pm today, severalresidents across the city of Bengaluru heard a mysterious ¡®loud boom¡¯ whichleft everyone puzzled because no one knows what caused it.
According to TheIndian Express, Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao has said, ¡°For the past onehour people are hearing the sound, I have asked the Air Force about the fighterjet movement.¡±
Reports state that several people reported hearing a boomingsound and a thunderous noise, while some claimed they felt tremors and windowsrattling.
The noise was heard in Cooke Town, Vivek Nagar, RamamurthyNagar, Hosur Road, HAL, Old Madras Road, Ulsoor, Kundanahalli, Kammanahalli, CVRaman Nagar, Whitefield and HSR Layout in Bengaluru.
Officials at the seismic activity monitoring wing of theKSNDMC said their no ground motion has been recorded.? "Our seismometers have not recorded anyspike, which means an earthquake is not the source of the sound. TheSeismometers capture vibrations of even mild tremor," an official said.
There were speculations about the boom being caused bytesting of a fighter jet. However, KSNDMC officials said they could not confirmthe same. "We do not monitor ultrasonic activities. Hence it would bedifficult to pinpoint the source of the sound," an official said.
However, it wasclarified that no damage was reported in the city so far. India Today quoted the Karnataka State Natural Disaster MonitoringCentre adding,
¡°The activity reported in Bengaluru is not due to anearthquake. The Seismometers did not capture any ground vibration as generallyhappens during a mild tremor. The activity is purely a loud unknown noise.¡±
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Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre alongwith mines and geology officials are trying to find out the nature and exactlocation of the sound that was heard.
The report mentioned that the seismic activity monitoringwing of the KSNDMC didn¡¯t record any such activity. Officials said theseismometers have not recorded any spike, which means an earthquake is not thesource of the sound, reports Deccan Herald.