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philippe.nguyen@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:41, Wednesday 16 October 2019 - last comment - 12:41, Thursday 17 October 2019(52525)
Distant banging sounds probably came from ~8-12km SE of corner station

A few loud banging sounds were reported coming from a distance this morning (52509). The events are clearly observed by microphones at 10-50 Hz at every end station (example spectrogram and q-scan attached). They each reached EY first, then CS (0.7s later), then EX (12.2s later), consistent with some people on site reporting that they seemed to be coming from the south. Triangulation using the relative arrival time differences between stations shows that the source of these noises may have been some 8-12km in the minus X direction relative to the corner station. This is the area just northwest of Hammer training center. The last figure shows the triangulation, which is based on the three loud events reported in Corey's log (EY arrival times of 16:15:48.2, 17:16:31.4, and 17:46:22.0 UTC) and shows shaded regions accounting for 0.1s error in delta_t.

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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 12:41, Thursday 17 October 2019 (52543)PEM

Adding a note to list how many blasts observed by eye using NDSCOPE to look at microphones at LVEA & end stations.  Oddly they occur close to every 30min during this period.

  1. 16:15:48utc
  2. 16:48:50utc
  3. 17:16:31utc
  4. 17:46:22utc
  5. 18:11:55utc
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