{"id":232,"date":"2026-05-30T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:34:42","slug":"loud-bang-heard-across-region-cause-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Loud bang heard across region, cause unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Around 2:10 p.m., a loud bang was heard across Cambridge and Somerville with police scanners in Somerville picking up Somerville Police Department chatter at 2:16 p.m. about several reports of a possible explosion.\u00a0Other reports and online posts suggest the bang was heard throughout much of Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=230\">Two movies on rules rewritten &amp; rules broken<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge Police sent out a Citywide Alert at 3:11 p.m. reporting that the department was aware of the \u2018loud boom,\u2019 and noting that it had been reported by several Cambridge residents and across the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman Sergeant Robert Reardon told Cambridge Day police had received \u201ca number of calls from concerned community members.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Reardon said the cause of the noise was unknown, but there were no \u201cknown incidents or resulting hazards in Cambridge that are connected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=228\">Yiyun Li on life \u2018in the abyss,\u2019 writing and the importance of \u2018Moby Dick\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher said in a post on Instagram that the bang was caused by a meteor which \u201cexploded off the South Shore.\u201d He pointed to lightning satellite data which signaled a large release of energy slightly off the coast at the time of the bang, a phenomenon which usually corresponds with meteors entering the atmosphere and exploding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s GOES-19 Geostationary Lightning Mapper Satellite showed a concentrated burst of lightning flashes off the coast and over much of Cape Cod at 2:11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Somerville\u2019s police department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=226\">CPS names new school leaders and administrators<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2:10 p.m., a loud bang was heard across Cambridge and Somerville with police scanners in Somerville picking up Somerville Police Department chatter at 2:16 p.m. about several reports of a possible explosion.\u00a0Other reports and online posts suggest the bang was heard throughout much of Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 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