Loud thudd noise from somewhere

[Ex- Member]

Yesterday and today we've been hearing and feeling these large loud thudding sound periodically through the day, and last night, just wondering if anyone in the Seend Devizes area knows what it is. It sounds like a large explosion a long way away. Also sounds like something very big and heavy being dropped from a great height on to the ground.

 

There's no pattern sometimes it's a few thuds together and some times single thuds about 5 to 10 minutes apart. It reminds me of the noise you hear when near Salisbury Plain when army are testing artillery. There's no military around here though.

 

It actually vibrates through the boat and the canal water slightly shimmers too, really strange.

[bigste]

Fracking maybe??????/

[David Schweizer]

We hear it regularly from time to time and we are much further away, it is probably the Army on manouvres on the the Imber ranges which are only about ten miles from Seend.

Edited December 3, 2013 by David Schweizer

[jodansgang]

....and suddenly the sound ceased.

[Dave Payne]

I would also say Fracking!

 

Google it and see if its in your area, i seem to recall it is...

[mark99]

I would also say Fracking!

 

Google it and see if its in your area, i seem to recall it is...

 

 

The government has not granted any exploration or development licences for sites within Wiltshire nor has the council received any request from potential developers to engage in pre-planning application discussions.

[MtB]

I would also say Fracking!

 

Google it and see if its in your area, i seem to recall it is...

 

Will be, but not 'is'.

 

MtB

[Ex- Member]

It's not fracking I'm pretty sure Dave

 

the Army on manouvres on the the Imber ranges which are only about ten miles from Seend.

 

 

That makes sense, I was unaware there were military stuff going on, some big explosions though if 10 miles away. Not heard any now for a good half hour, it's no big deal just wanted to know the cause.

[matty40s]

Could be someone on the Western KnA using a lock??

[Naughty Cal]

It's not fracking I'm pretty sure Dave

 

 

That makes sense, I was unaware there were military stuff going on, some big explosions though if 10 miles away. Not heard any now for a good half hour, it's no big deal just wanted to know the cause.

Are there any building sites nearby. Piling works perhaps?

[dor]

Almost certainly army ranges. When I lived in Mid Wales the tank-firing range was over 20 miles away but you could still clearly hear (and feel) the explosions.

[David Schweizer]

I would also say Fracking!

 

Google it and see if its in your area, i seem to recall it is...

 

It's not fracking, it's the Army.

 

The Royal Artillary Training School are using live amunituion during their training excercises on the Imber ranges between the 2nd and the 6th of December. A second (even noisier) excercise will be taking place between the 16th and 19th December, when the Land Warfare Centre conduct their armoured Infantry excercises on both Imber and Larkhill ranges. Source - Salisburuy Plain Training Area December Newsletter.

Edited December 3, 2013 by David Schweizer

[Guest]

 

It's not fracking, it's the Army.

 

The Royal Artillary Training School are using live amunituion during their training excercises on the Imber ranges between the 2nd and the 6th of December. A second (even noisier) excercise will be taking place between the 16th and 19th December, when the Land Warfare Centre conduct their armoured Infantry excercises on both Imber and Larkhill ranges. Source - Salisburuy Plain Training Area December Newsletter.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/259423/spta_newsletter_dec2013.pdf

[MtB]

Could be someone on the Western KnA using a lock??

 

Yes very good! I was trying to think of something along those lines but you beat me to it!

 

 

MtB

[Mike Tee]

Somebody testing a bolinder?

[Grace and Favour]

Could be someone on the Western KnA using a lock??

Oh have a Virtual Green One, Matty

 

[bizzard]

Are there any building sites nearby. Piling works perhaps?

Piles can be painful I believe but not noisy.

 

Lots of warnings about Piles on the Broads and upper Thames. like;-

Piles.

submerged Piles.

Beware Piles.

Hidden Piles.

No mooring to Piles.

Piling in progress.

More Piles.

Avoid Piles.

Piles of Piles.

Edited December 3, 2013 by bizzard

[Martin Megson]

Could be someone on the Western KnA using a lock??

 

Now we are getting into the realms of fantasy

[MtB]

Now we are getting into the realms of fantasy

Might have been Matty nailing the solar panels onto the roof of yet another unsuspecting punter's bote...

 

 

MtB

Edited December 3, 2013 by Mike the Boilerman

[ditchcrawler]

I have never heard fracking.

[Machpoint005]

I have never heard fracking.

 

It doesn't make a bang. It involves the use of lots of pumps I(usually diesel driven).

[ditchcrawler]

 

It doesn't make a bang. It involves the use of lots of pumps I(usually diesel driven).

That is why I have never heard it

[Starcoaster]

Army sounds like the best bet, but around a month ago I was hearing what sounded the same in another area, and it turned out to be one of those bird scarer banger things.

[David Schweizer]

Take it from me, it is the army. Although we are nearly twenty miles away from the ranges, we have been hearing it for thirty years, and it matches the OP's description exactly, it used to make our old (single glazed) windows rattle. The noise from bird scarers (we get them as well) is a much higher pitch and is not accompanied by the heavy vibration,.

Edited December 3, 2013 by David Schweizer

[Ron T]

Ducks farting?