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“At approximately 1:30 am on Friday, Jan 2nd, we (my children, my husband, myself and our two dogs) were awakened by two loud booms that sounded more like two freight trains colliding with each other twice. It can only be described as a metallic grinding, glass breaking, house-shaking boom.”

- Northern Kentucky resident

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January 5, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico - Since reporting about the January 1, 2015, loud boom heard throughout Luzerne County, Pennsylvania at 3:23 PM EST, Earthfiles has received several other unexplained loud boom reports during January 1 - 4, 2015, beginning at 1:30 AM EST in Coventry, Rhode Island.

“People report windows shaking or a boom that sounds like a transformer booming, or something running into their house.”

- Chris Bell, Director, Morristown-Hamblen EMA, Jan. 6, 2015

“Researchers have been able to conclude at least one boom, heard and felt on Jan. 6, 2015, as being from a non-geologic source.”

- Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Univ. of Memphis, Jan. 8, 2015

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January 9, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico - Since reporting about the January 1, 2015, loud boom heard throughout Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, at 3:23 PM EST, Earthfiles has continued to receive new unexplained loud boom reports during the first week of January 2015.

– “We thought some nut was out here, you know, with explosives. It sounded like thunder. You could feel the ground shake, but it was nothing like an earthquake.”

- Anthony Young, Norman Oklahoma, January 9, 2015

– “I want you to understand that we hear and feel these quakes almost every day, a lot more than the local news reports. ...We hear booms all the time and the 4.4 or 4.1 magnitude in the Guthrie/Langston area, on February 8, 2014, flickered the lights, sounded like a big explosion on our roof and knocked clocks, and other items off the wall and window sills.”

- Resident of Guthrie, Logan County, Okla., February 21, 2014

– “Felt like bombs going off. It's just a huge loud noise and then it's like a reverb from that boom that just shakes the entire house. If I'm experiencing eight of these in one day, then when does it erupt and become absolutely horrible that takes my house down?”

- Nancy York, Resident of Logan County, Okla., February 14, 2014

– “A serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States with widespread and catastrophic damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee.”

- FEMA, November 2008

January 9, 2015, Associated Press about mysterious booms shaking Norman, Oklahoma, at 11:19 AM both on Jan. 9th and Jan. 8th. Not earthquakes and causes still unknown.