{"id":675175,"date":"2026-05-31T02:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:09:10","slug":"meteor-triggers-loud-boom-and-shaking-felt-across-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675175\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor triggers loud boom and shaking felt across Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A meteor traveling at thens of thousands of miles an hour triggered a loud boom and ground shaking that were felt across Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n

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NASA confirmed a fireball, meaning a bright meteor, passed over the state at 2:06 p.m. at an estimated speed of 75,000 mph, releasing what it said was the equivalent of about 300 tons of TNT upon breakup. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles above extreme northeast Massachusetts\/southeast New Hampshire,\u201d NASA said in a statement. <\/p>\n

The fireball isn\u2019t associated with an active meteor shower, NASA said, describing the phenomenon as \u201ca natural object and not a re-entry of space debris or a satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said public safety officials received reports of \u201can audible boom\u201d and tremors in the eastern part of the state. The agency said there were no known emergency police or fire requests connected to the reports.<\/p>\n

The United States Geological Survey<\/a> described event is a \u201cwidely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike earthquakes which occur at discrete location in the earth, sonic boom events occur along a linear path in the atmosphere,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

There was no earthquake nor anything impacting the ground, the USGS said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meteor traveling at thens of thousands of miles an hour triggered a loud boom and ground shaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-675175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}