Yesterday a Meteor Exploded over Cleveland

A meteor exploded Tuesday morning north of Cleveland over Lake Erie.

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received hundreds reports of a visible meteor from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Kentucky; it was widely visible across Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and western New York state, too.

Though the meteor occurred during the daylight hours, it was bright enough to be seen for about 5.5 seconds. Tens of thousands of people across northern Ohio heard a loud boom; some people even felt the ground shake. That may have been the meteor’s sonic boom or the sound of it actually exploding. A seismometer, or earthquake-measuring instrument, detected subtle shaking of the ground at 8:56 a.m. in Lorain County, Ohio.

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