[meteorite-list] Massive Blast Rocks UK Homes
From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 13 20:25:14 2004 Message-ID: <416DC76B.4060206_at_fascination.com> Dear Ron, List; Meth lab? Dave F. Ron Baalke wrote: > >http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/133/133432_riddle_as_massive_blast_rocks_homes.html > >Riddle as massive blast rocks homes >Neal Keeling >Mancester Online (United Kingdom) >October 13, 2004 > >A MYSTERY explosion rocked Greater Manchester today. > >Police and the fire service received dozens of calls from the public >about the blast which happened at 7.30am. > >But despite efforts by both services to locate the source nothing was found. > >Fire service spokesman Ian Bailey said: "We had people calling from a >wide area - Chorlton, Flixton, Farnworth, and Walkden - saying they had >heard a huge explosion. > >"But we have not responded to any incident which would explain the >blast. Some of the control room officers at our headquarters in >Pendlebury also heard it." > >A police spokesman said: "We have not been able to find any explanation >and there is no rubble or bricks anywhere." > >Measurements > >The British Geological Society is investigating.Though none of their >earthquake signals were triggered, it said that it may have been too >shallow to register on their measurements. > >Another possibility is that the blast could have comefrom old mine >workings. There are disused shafts in the Walkden area and at Agecroft >where a pit closed at the beginning of the 1990s. > >Lynn Hall, of Sherwood Drive, Pendlebury, said: "At 7.25am this morning >I was locking the door of our house and my husband Carl was waiting for >me to come out. He said to me `Did you hear that loud bang?' He kept >mentioning it because it was so loud." > >One caller to a radio station has claimed that she saw something falling >from the sky. But fire brigade spokesman Paul Duggan said: "If it had >been a meteorite we could have expected to have found a crater - which >we haven't, unless it is the middle of a golf course or a field." >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > Received on Wed 13 Oct 2004 08:25:15 PM PDT |
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