Heard a loud 'boom' in Bengaluru? Officials are investigating what it was

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The sound was heard as far as Cooke Town, Vivek Nagar, Ramamurthy Nagar, Hosur Road, HAL, Old Madras Road, Ulsoor, Kundanahalli, Kammanahalli, CV Raman Nagar, Whitefield and HSR Layout in the city.

TNM Staff

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A loud blast was heard in Bengaluru on Wednesday afternoon at around 1.30 pm near the city’s Whitefield area. Many Bengaluru residents across several areas in the city took to social media to state that a loud ‘boom’ had been heard in the area. While some residents said they heard a ‘boom,’ and a ‘thunderous noise,’ others felt their homes shake and windows rattling for as long as five seconds.  Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao told TNM that no damage was reported anywhere in the city and no calls have been made to 100. “We have asked the Air Force Control Room to check if this was a flight,” he said, adding that they are waiting for the Air Force to confirm. The sound was heard as far as Cooke Town, Vivek Nagar, Ramamurthy Nagar, Hosur Road, HAL, Old Madras Road, Ulsoor, Kundanahalli, Kammanahalli, CV Raman Nagar, Whitefield and HSR Layout in the city. Several social media users stated that they could feel vibrations for about five minutes A jet aircraft could be heard flying over Bengaluru. There is speculation that the sound could be a ‘sonic boom’ from a fighter jet flying over the city. A sonic boom is the result of fast movement of aircraft – the thunderous sound is produced when these objects fly overhead faster than the speed of sound.    TNM reached out to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre (KSNDMC), who confirmed that it wasn’t an earthquake. "Earthquake activity will not be restricted to one area and will be widespread. We have checked our sensors and there is no earthquake activity recorded today," Srinivas Reddy, Director of KSNDMC. In 2005, too, a similar ‘sonic boom’ was heard in Bangalore. Some pointed out that Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) could be conducting regular flight tests of light combat aircraft (LCA).  

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