Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — Audible Airquakes Now. [ARTICLE]

Audible Airquakes Now.

The suggestion that there are airquakes, due to explosions of meteorites, and quite independent of earthquakes and volcanoes, comes from no less an authority than W. F. Denning, the astronomer. That such explosions are sometimes audible is well known. Prof. W. M. Foote has just recorded that a large meteorite falling near Holbrook, Ark., at 6:30 m. on July 19, 191?, broke up with a loud noise that lasted half a minute or more, and scattered over a stretch of three miles of sandy desert more than 14,000 of the fragments—* of a total weight of nearly 600 pounds —having been picked up and preserved. The exploding bodies, of course, are not always seen. Other similar Instances have been recorded, and two meteorite explosions noted isl 1877 —on November 20 and 23 — were estimated to have created air disturbances more than a hundred times as violent as a loud peal of thunder.