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A market town was shaken by a huge explosion after an ”unexplained” occurrence left terrified residents believing that a meteorite had crashed to earth.

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Locals in Saffron Walden, Essex, called 999 at 8pm on Sunday to report an earthquake after homes shook, furniture moved and windows rattled.

Two loud bangs resounded through the medieval town, prompting suggestions that there had been a plane crash or a meteorite landing nearby.

Noises were heard as far as six miles away in Thaxted and residents of Haverhill, Cambs., 13 miles away reported thuds, moving furniture and shaking houses.

But despite a full investigation by emergency services in the area, the bizarre event remains unexplained.

It was believed that a fault at an electricity sub-station caused the event, but the authorities have ruled this out and are calling the explosions a ”mystery”.

Caroline Mifsud, 37, from Saffron Walden, said that the sleepy village was shocked by the strange quake.

She said: ”My son heard an explosion and felt a shake and about ten minutes later there were police and fire engines everywhere. Everyone is talking about it on Facebook.”

Resident Andrew Green, 25, was in his garden when he felt the the mysterious rumble beneath his feet.

He said: ”I just felt the ground tremble and there was a bang. It was really weird.”

Inspector Kevin Wakefield, from Essex police, said that so far the authorities were at a loss to explain the strange event.

He said: ”We had a lot of calls from residents who heard and felt something but no one has actually seen anything.

”At the moment it is currently unexplained and unaccounted for and we are actively encouraging anyone who saw anything that might help us solve the mystery to contact us.”

A spokesman for the British Geological Survey, which records and measures earthquakes in the UK, said it had not recorded any activity in the area.

He said: ”It could be a meteorite or just an unexplained natural phenomenon.”

Paul Curtis, station officer in charge at Saffron Walden Fires Station, said: ”It’s a bit of a mystery.

”The power companies said there have been no reports of power loss and we investigated and could not find anything.

”We also checked with the military to see if they had conducted any training exercises.”

Meteorites are fragments of rock or metal which fall to Earth space at speeds of up to 11.2km per second.

Picture Credit: Jim Linwood on Flickr

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  1. BubbaDSmith says:
    11 years ago

    Sounds like someone playing with oxygen/acetylene trash bag/balloon “bombs”. They make one hell of a boom!

    Reply
    • CaptainHappyPants says:
      11 years ago

      Sounds like someone is an idiot. They say some stupid sh!t!

      Reply
  2. james13 says:
    11 years ago

    You have advertisements that are overlapping the story text and making it unreadable. You suck.

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    • Bsila46 says:
      11 years ago

      James, you need to change your Resolution to at least 1024×768 its not the site that sucks I have no problems.

      Reply
    • CaptainHappyPants says:
      11 years ago

      ya retardddddd face

      Reply
      • SnookTheHooker says:
        11 years ago

        Hey man that’s not cool, you should be nicer to people even though they have obvious mental deficiencies.

        Reply
        • CaptainHappyPants says:
          11 years ago

          Do you want to wang chung mother f’er? Cause I’ll f’in wang chung TONIGHT!

          Reply
          • MrRogerslubskidz says:
            11 years ago

            Ever have a !@#%$ shoved so far into your !@# that you just !@%$# in your pants? Cause if not, me either.

  3. Martinsprenz says:
    11 years ago

    I know that you will either say I am nuts or a liar but we had and explosion in out small neighborhood in Knoxville, Tn at around 1:50PM in the afternoon on Dec 31st. It shook our entire house like an earthquake. I kept waiting for the emergency service vehicle sirens but we never hear them. Just to give some perspective we live roughly 10 miles from our nations largest nuclear weapons facility.

    Cheers, Martin

    Reply
  4. Bill Spillane says:
    11 years ago

    Sounds like a sonic boom to me, having made many of them myself.

    Reply
  5. Klar Stempien says:
    11 years ago

    Stop the misinformation!
    Correct that last sentence to read:

    “Meteors are fragments of rock or metal which fall to Earth at speeds of up to 11.2km per second.”

    Only after they hit the ground are they called meteorites!

    Reply

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