USGA says earthquake not to blame for loud boom heard across the Midlands

(Video Courtesy of Ryan Turiak, AMS Columbia)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– At 5:24 p.m., Thursday many across the Midlands and beyond took to social media reporting they heard and felt and loud boom.

The ABC Columbia News team experienced the same thing inside station’s studio.

About two hours later, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that it was a sonic boom nearly four miles north, northeast of Saint Andrews. The location and time are approximate.

According said the recorded waves and eyewitness reports are consistent with a sonic boom and added that its standard magnitude calculation methods do not apply to sonic booms.

Ryan Turiak, owner of AMS Columbia, captured the sound of the boom from a roof camera placed on his hanger at Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Airport in downtown Columbia.

Click on the video above to hear what it sounded like.

As of early Tuesday night, the South Carolina Emergency Management Division told ABC Columbia there was still no word on what caused the sonic boom.

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