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SUBJECT: MYSTERY TREMOR FELT IN WEST VIRGINIA FILE: UFO3114
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Mystery Tremor Felt in West Virginia
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Hundreds of people in southern West Virginia reported
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feeling the earth shake and hearing a thunder-like sound
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Monday evening, but authorities are at a loss to say what
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caused it.
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The US Geological Survey's Natl Earthquake Information
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Center in Golden, Colo, said there was nothing to indicate
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an earthquake had occurred. Emergency officials in Raleigh
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and Fayette counties are investigating, said Scott Tygrett,
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a dispatcher for the Fayette County sheriff's office.
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Brian Fox, a disc jockey at WJLS radio in Beckley, said
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he had 400-500 calls from Raleigh, Fayette, Summers,
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Greenbrier, Boone and Wyoming counties.
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"A lot of people are saying it shook their whole house,
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that it felt like a wave coming through," Fox said.
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John Price, news director at Oak Hill TV station WOAY-TV,
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said dozens of calls began coming in shortly after 6:30 PM
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(EST).
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John Minsch, a geophysicist with the US Geological
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Survey, said the disturbance could have been a sonic boom,
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which he said often is mistaken for an earthquake.
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"I didn't see a thing that looked like an earthquake," he
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said.
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Federal Aviation Administration officials in Charleston
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said they received no reports of a sonic boom in southern
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West Virginia.
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Steve Webber, director of the state's Office of Miners'
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Health, Safety and Training, said his agency had received no
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reports of any mine accidents that might account for the
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noise and shaking.
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