{"id":543156,"date":"2026-03-17T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:46:14","slug":"house-shaking-boom-heard-as-possible-meteor-strikes-south-of-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543156\/","title":{"rendered":"House-shaking boom heard as possible meteor strikes south of Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Mar. 17, 2026, 3:36 PM<\/p>\n<p>Updated on Mar. 17, 2026, 4:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>Residents reported a loud boom that caused houses to shake.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday at around 9:00 a.m. EDT, a possible meteor created a loud boom south of Lake Erie, heard widely across Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on the <a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/imo_view\/browse_reports?event=PENDING&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">American Meteor Society\u2019s<\/a> website indicate the meteor was heard or seen in several places, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, Illinois, and Mississauga, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the Cleveland, Ohio area reported a \u201cdeep, powerful blast that shook houses, rattled windows, and sent people rushing outside to see what had happened,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/03\/what-northeast-ohio-residents-heard-and-felt-as-suspected-meteor-boom-rattled-region.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On satellite imagery, the meteor resembled a lightning strike, but there were no thunderstorms in the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p>More about meteors<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44 tonnes or 44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day,\u201d NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">says on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost all the material is vaporized in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, leaving a bright trail fondly called \u2018shooting stars.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Mar. 17, 2026, 3:36 PM Updated on Mar. 17, 2026, 4:00 PM Residents reported a loud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-543156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}