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Huge Explosions Rock Florida and South Carolina 💥 What's Happening?!

2026-05-29 Science & Technology
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Two loud explosions struck the South Eastern United States today, one known (the explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket in Florida) and the other unknown (mysterious sonic boom over South Carolina). What's happening and should residents be concerned? Geophysicist Stefan Burns reports... Live data on the Earth and Sun at Earth Evolution: https://www.earthevolution.com/energy-analytics Earth Evolution Store: https://www.earthevolution.com/store ✅ Subscribe to my channel: @StefanBurns & @StefanBurnsClips Twitter/X: https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanburnsofficial/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oYcPs2YFIKHoNrimxaDN5 Data and Credit: M0.0 Sonic Boom South Carolina USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sp6m/executive American Meteor Society Event Page https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events GOES-East Image Viewer https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16 NOAA Bolide Tracker: https://neo-bolide.ndc.nasa.gov/#/ Blue Origin Explosion https://apnews.com/article/blue-origin-rocket-explosion-bezos-ecdb38828fac02e3a33cc4fd4e61543e SpaceFlightNow https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/2060170680604168319 https://spaceflightnow.com/ John Concilus https://x.com/JConcilus/status/2060176723535331334 This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, please contact via www.stefanburns.com/contact #geology #geophysics #volcanoes #earthquakes #volcanoes #volcano #schumannresonance #earthscience #science #astronomy

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@StefanBurns 2026-05-29

Some interesting facts as it relates to the explosion of Blue Origins New Glen Rocket: A New Glenn rocket has 5.5 GWh of energy (first and second stage). The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima had 17.5 GWh of energy. The largest non-nuclear blast was Operation Minor Scale (1985) with 4.65 GWh of energy. The largest non-nuclear accidental blast was the Halifax explosion (1917) with 3.37 GWh of energy. source: https://x.com/robertgraham/status/2060182250428281090 So yeah, this explosion from Florida was BIG, and also strange is how the mysterious sonic boom heard to the north 3.5 hours earlier was heard/felt over a much larger area... And some interesting info as it relates to aircraft related sonic booms: Military fighters cannot fly supersonic over populated areas of the country unless it’s a 9/11 type event. Yes, sometimes they make oopsies, but those oopsies are usually confined to a very small area, not half of a state. Going further, even if the boom today was caused by military jets (wasn’t), their sonic boom can only be heard about 1 mile laterally for every 1,000ft of elevation. Given the area involved today, it would’ve taken a jet flying near the top of their operating envelope (over 50,000ft) to maybe be heard over a 50 mile wide area and it would’ve had to have been in continuous supersonic flight from Florence to Augusta which makes it even more implausible in this situation. The energy required to produce that explosive boom and its pressure wave today was orders of magnitude greater than what an F-22/35/16/15/ETC is capable of. The Beruit explosion was the largest non nuclear explosion in history and it was heard up to 120 miles away. Today was heard from at least Florence, SC to Augusta, GA which is like 140 miles. source: https://x.com/ChrisJacksonSC/status/2060182191653433646

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@Beautiful_in_all_hernames 2026-05-29

I live in Columbia, South Carolina. I’m nearly 40 years old and I’ve lived here my entire life and I’ve never seen or heard anything like that in my life. I was within 15 miles of the estimated originating location of the sonic boom. I have never been in the vicinity of a bomb however, I can imagine that that is very close to what it would have sound like and felt like because there was an energetic vibration that rocked the entire city and it was the loudest explosion I have ever heard. Something is happening and not enough. People are talking about it.

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@CatherineNettles 2026-05-29

I'm ready for the whole system to fry, things are so out of control. It's time to start over because we are going down the wrong road with AI and robots

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@johnhunter-r2r 2026-05-29

Data center blown up? That would be ok with me

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@heartsfaith7077 2026-05-30

Elites that run the world are out of control. Literally the only explanation.

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@beckettdavis3936 2026-05-29

I heard the sound in Irmo, SC. I honestly thought either lightning hit the house directly or it was an Earthquake situation. The sound was deafening & my house shook violently. It is not like anything I've experienced in my life and I grew up in Edgewater, FL, which is down the road to the Kennedy Space Center and has lightning storms almost daily. It really did almost give me a heart attack. I've heard rockets blow up before & experienced sonic booms, this seemed like something different. It was unsettling for sure

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@jasonblack6142 2026-05-29

People wake up we are being lied to .by our fake evil government

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@nairtete3934 2026-05-29

Check the news in Portugal. The exact same thing happened here in Portugal a couple weeks ago! Was all over the news here and also no earthquakes were registered. Very odd

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@thefactoryratgenius4659 2026-05-30

And now near Boston as well 😮

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@elizabethcameron6045 2026-05-29

I live in Columbia, SC. This explosion sounded like a massive thunderclap but muffled. What was remarkable was the permeating vibration.

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