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WATCH: Amazing Videos Show How Sonic Booms Shook Berkeley Area, Elsewhere
Videos show how the N.J. sonic boom shook kitchens, windows and anything else that wasn't nailed down.

It was the sonic boom that rocked New Jersey.
And it was enough of a shake that jolted millions of residents who were convinced that an unlikely earthquake hit their hometowns.
The below videos show how the sonic boom, reportedly generated during U.S. Navy aircraft testing over the Atlantic Ocean, shook kitchens, windows and anything else that wasn’t nailed down on Thursday.
NBC4 New York reported that officials with the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland said they were conducting testing of F-35C fighter jet over the Atlantic Ocean Thursday afternoon and that some of the aircraft performed maneuvers that could have caused sonic booms.
Related: UPDATE: Sonic Booms Likely Caused By Navy Training, Reports Say
The United States Geological Survey said the sonic boom was recorded near Hammonton, N.J. - about a half-hour south of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
The booms caused rattling and shaking felt from southern New Jersey all the way to Long Island and southern Connecticut, prompting hundreds of residents to call 9-1-1 and thousands of tweets on Twitter about what people believed was an earthquake.
“What we saw was something that was not consistent with an earthquake,” said William Yeck, a geophysicist with the USGS.
Here are the videos:
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