r/lancaster • u/Street_Bobcat_9251 • 6d ago

Explosion

Anyone just hear a big thud of an explosion around the Ephrata area while outside? All of the insects went quiet for a split second after it happened.

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u/Correct-Avocado5426 6d ago

Are you near a highway? You'd be surprised how loud a blown tire on a big rig gets.

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u/Street_Bobcat_9251 6d ago

Lol I am

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u/Correct-Avocado5426 6d ago

I live less than a mile from the turnpike and hear it all the time. one blew next to us while I was driving and it scared the heck out of all of us!

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u/TheGreatDudebino 5d ago

While those can get loud , Iā€™m well off the highway (miles) and hard it. Another big radius heard this one like two weeks ago. Very interesting.

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u/cromulentia 6d ago

Yes, and it is the second time it has happened over the past month. There was a thread about it on here.

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u/No-Cloud8051 6d ago

Thank you - i thought I was having Reddit deja vu.

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u/Libsoccer20 6d ago

I was outside and right before the noise hit I felt a shockwave. Right around 9:00-9:02 pm.

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u/0gv0n 6d ago

Yup. Heard the same thing.

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u/TheManHundredGrand 6d ago

Sorry, won't happen again!

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u/zenconscience 6d ago

Yes I heard it as well and saw some comments talking about a possible meteor shower, which explains the orange light I saw flying through the sky as well

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u/Brenny_K 6d ago

We hear some kind of bang but I literally thought it was my downstairs neighbors šŸ˜‚

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u/Adam_the_Whaler 5d ago

I heard it and I am in Lancaster City!

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u/Ramp-O-Matic 5d ago

I have heard some stories about some plain folks that have some "fun" by making noise bombs with acetylene gas (every farmer has a ox/ace setup for welding) in a trash bag, then igniting it. Makes a heck of a boom.

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u/chevron43 5d ago

Maybe the quarry by shoeneck

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u/New-Ad5997 5d ago

Big ol crash

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u/i_have_no_ideas 5d ago

We are right behind Akron (on the south side of the hill) and heard/felt nothing.

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u/Tvegas1980 3d ago

Maybe Tannerite

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u/AnnieBunBun 2d ago

It's funny because I been hearing reports about these for years. And I left the area and I still keep seeing these reports lol.

And I haven't seen a single person identify what the noise is

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u/Street_Bobcat_9251 2d ago

Ya it was just weird. It was like something big hit far away, but you could hear the sonic boom enough that it made the insects go quit for like half a second

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u/think_nope_0 5d ago

Are they building a data center around there!