MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — A loud boom rattled residents around the Mount Pleasant area of South Carolina early Tuesday, but it wasn’t an earthquake.
According to our partners at WCIV in Charleston, several homeowners reported that their windows shook from the boom, which happened around 8:40 a.m.
The South Carolina Emergency Management Division acknowledged the reports about the “large boom/rumble” and was working to figure out where it came from. The U.S. Geological Survey also said that no earthquakes were reported in the area as of 9:45 a.m.
So that led to speculation among multiple people who spotted military fighter jets that the sound could have been a sonic boom.
But the U.S. Coast Guard in Charleston couldn’t say what caused it.
A joint press release from the Coast Guard and Waterways Management Division earlier this month said that Joint Base Charleston would be conducting explosive operations on the Cooper River from May 22 to May 28, but WCIV hadn’t heard back if those operations were taking place Tuesday morning.
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