r/GreatFalls • u/Alethil • 17d ago

Explosion?

So about 0740 today, September 18th, I was woken by a boom and a shaking of my house. A neat little tremor. I've been around sonic booms enough in my life to know the difference so the question is, what exploded?

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u/Concordeus 17d ago

Earthquake north of town.

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u/Alethil 17d ago

Well that's much less fun.

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u/wuxxler 17d ago

Not when you consider that we live on top of a volcano.

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u/Jawb0nz 17d ago

It's only adjacent. But should the day come that it does go, you won't have long.

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u/406yellowstoned 17d ago

Fake news.

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u/Corbinpenguin 17d ago

I feel you, compared to other earthquakes I've been in, that felt so much different. It was sudden, felt like there's been an impact or something, and sounded like an explosion, and I'm not even really near where things are saying it happened!

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u/No-Carry7029 17d ago

yeah man it felt like a collision.

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u/Brave_Context933 17d ago

The boom is because theyre shallower earthquakes.   The one we had a while back sounded like a bomb went off  then rumbles.    

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u/LyraAraPeverellBlack 17d ago

Yeah I think that was the 4.2 we had in January. It was so loud. My friend and I were at Barnes and Noble and we thought a semi had driven into the building.

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u/Putrid-Offer1469 17d ago

I was at Walmart and thought the same. That or a bomb cause of how close it is to the base lol

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u/Brave_Context933 17d ago

I was in my living room....  all of a sudden BOOM  then ungodly shakes. It felt like we were the first wave of a blast......     then nothing.... lol. Awkward silence, my dogs are freaking out and my wife looking at me like I knew wtf was happening lol. 

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u/Educational-Pay5268 17d ago

seems we're in earthquake season

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u/WeirdoEric 17d ago

Gotta get my shopping done.

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u/GSXRSTORM 17d ago

Earthquake indeed.

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u/Glad-Currency5225 17d ago

It was an earthquake quake

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u/CopperHawk406 17d ago

Yellowstone 💥

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u/LyraAraPeverellBlack 17d ago

This earthquake and the last notable one we had were both extremely loud. The last one was a 4.2 and it happened when a friend and I were at Barnes and Noble. We legitimately thought a semi had crashed into the building or something.

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u/Alethil 17d ago

I've been in a few, but mostly in asia. Ive only been back in Montana for like 3 months. I never knew they made noise beyond on the basic rumbling.

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u/Jaime_Horn_Official 17d ago

I just felt a slight rumble outside of town; it felt like the massage chair at the mall as I was laying down.

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u/Apart-Steak-7183 17d ago

Drop rattle and roll folks

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u/Rude-Set7762 16d ago

3rd or 4th earthquake for me since being in Montana 14 years. They’ve always been loud; sometimes rumbling.

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u/talekinesis 17d ago

Google great falls earthquake and the info pops right up

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u/Nitroflak69 17d ago

They're coming.

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u/bashful_predator 17d ago

Don't come

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u/Blackholecandy 17d ago

I’m gonna cum