Clintonville Booms: City Hires Engineering Firm in
Kamis, 22 Maret 2012 by Android Blackberry
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Right after 4 days of unexplained loud booms which have roused location residents from their beds with no answers in sight, local officials have hired an engineering firm to try to find the source from the strange sounds.
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Households long for quiet after mysterious booms more than the past few nights roused them from their beds.
By Ron Page, AP
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Households extended for quiet just after mysterious booms over the past handful of nights roused them from their beds.
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By Ron Page, AP
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Families extended for quiet soon after mysterious booms over the past few nights roused them from their beds.
The mysterious booms have captured the consideration of national media, which includes reporters from CNN, NBC and the New York Occasions who swarmed a public hearing Wednesday when city administrator Lisa Kuss announced the city will invest $7,000 to employ Waukesha, Wis.-based engineering firm Ruekert & Mielke, which will place four seismometers around the city.
If the firm finds the epicenter, the next step will be to pinpoint the depth and what is causing it. The cause is likely only a couple hundred feet under the earth's surface, Kuss said.
"It's possible we'll never have a definitive answer," Kuss told about 400 residents at the Clintonville High School auditorium.
The sounds began Sunday and reports to police since then have come in from across the city of 4,600 residents.
Kuss displayed maps showing where calls have come in from residents reporting vibrations and booms -- which they describe as sounding like thunder, underground fireworks or someone slamming a heavy door.
The city set up audio and video recorders overnight Tuesday but didn't capture anything. There was at least one loud boom at 5 a.m. As of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, no other noises were reported.
Some residents say their house have been particularly hard-hit.
For Holly Beringer, the vibrations have shaken her home, rattling pictures and dishes. She was in the crowd Wednesday with several of her neighbors, who said they didn't have queries for city officials but were curious to hear if they had any answers.
While city officials haven't pinpointed what is happening, they've ruled out many theories, Kuss said, which includes issues with the sanitary and storm water systems, changes in methane or propane gas levels, blasting from mines, military activity, criminal activity or construction.
They have consulted several geologists, including researchers at the universities in Milwaukee and Madison without any conclusions, Kuss said. She has received emails from across the nation and world, with people offering suggestions and reporting similar occurrences elsewhere.
A similar incident was reported in Marion, near Clintonville, about two decades ago and in Georgia more recently.
"But it didn't last three days and three nights," Kuss said.
Several scared residents asked whether -- and how -- they should prepare for a serious emergency.
The city can't predict if something bigger will happen, but Kuss told people there is no reason to consider evacuating the city and that there are fewer reported booms and vibrations each day.
Some residents joked they should capitalize on the odd phenomenon by selling free shakes with hamburgers and making T-shirts claiming "things are booming in Clintonville."
Right after 4 days of unexplained loud booms which have roused location residents from their beds with no answers in sight, local officials have hired an engineering firm to try to find the source from the strange sounds.
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Households long for quiet after mysterious booms more than the past few nights roused them from their beds.
By Ron Page, AP
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Households extended for quiet just after mysterious booms over the past handful of nights roused them from their beds.
Enlarge
By Ron Page, AP
A resident asks concerns at a public meeting with city officials in Clintonville, Wis., on Wednesday. Families extended for quiet soon after mysterious booms over the past few nights roused them from their beds.
The mysterious booms have captured the consideration of national media, which includes reporters from CNN, NBC and the New York Occasions who swarmed a public hearing Wednesday when city administrator Lisa Kuss announced the city will invest $7,000 to employ Waukesha, Wis.-based engineering firm Ruekert & Mielke, which will place four seismometers around the city.
If the firm finds the epicenter, the next step will be to pinpoint the depth and what is causing it. The cause is likely only a couple hundred feet under the earth's surface, Kuss said.
"It's possible we'll never have a definitive answer," Kuss told about 400 residents at the Clintonville High School auditorium.
The sounds began Sunday and reports to police since then have come in from across the city of 4,600 residents.
Kuss displayed maps showing where calls have come in from residents reporting vibrations and booms -- which they describe as sounding like thunder, underground fireworks or someone slamming a heavy door.
The city set up audio and video recorders overnight Tuesday but didn't capture anything. There was at least one loud boom at 5 a.m. As of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, no other noises were reported.
Some residents say their house have been particularly hard-hit.
For Holly Beringer, the vibrations have shaken her home, rattling pictures and dishes. She was in the crowd Wednesday with several of her neighbors, who said they didn't have queries for city officials but were curious to hear if they had any answers.
While city officials haven't pinpointed what is happening, they've ruled out many theories, Kuss said, which includes issues with the sanitary and storm water systems, changes in methane or propane gas levels, blasting from mines, military activity, criminal activity or construction.
They have consulted several geologists, including researchers at the universities in Milwaukee and Madison without any conclusions, Kuss said. She has received emails from across the nation and world, with people offering suggestions and reporting similar occurrences elsewhere.
A similar incident was reported in Marion, near Clintonville, about two decades ago and in Georgia more recently.
"But it didn't last three days and three nights," Kuss said.
Several scared residents asked whether -- and how -- they should prepare for a serious emergency.
The city can't predict if something bigger will happen, but Kuss told people there is no reason to consider evacuating the city and that there are fewer reported booms and vibrations each day.
Some residents joked they should capitalize on the odd phenomenon by selling free shakes with hamburgers and making T-shirts claiming "things are booming in Clintonville."
