A meteor exploded over Cleveland, causing a frightening roar and ground shaking.

For many, the morning of Tuesday, March 17, began with a meteor explosion. It occurred north of Cleveland over Lake Erie. The American Meteor Society received hundreds of reports from people who witnessed the disintegration of a celestial body in Earth's atmosphere, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Kentucky. The phenomenon was seen across a fairly wide area, including Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and western New York, writes The Washington Post.

Although the meteor appeared during daylight hours, it was bright enough to be visible for 5,5 seconds. Tens of thousands of residents in northern Ohio heard a powerful boom, and some even felt the ground shake. However, this could have been a sound wave from the explosion. That morning, at 8:56 a.m., a seismometer (an instrument for recording earthquakes) recorded weak vibrations in Lorain County, Ohio.

The American Meteor Society continues to study the received reports in order to reconstruct the trajectory of the falling celestial body.

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The GOES East weather satellite, located approximately 36,000 kilometers above Earth's surface, detected a flash at 8:56 a.m. Initially, it was mistaken for a lightning strike, but ground-based systems confirmed there was no lightning. In fact, the flash was infrared radiation emitted by a meteor explosion.

It is too early to say anything about the meteor's size or trajectory, or whether any of its fragments reached Earth's surface.

It should be noted that such incidents occur from time to time. For example, on January 16, 2018, a meteor exploded over Michigan, causing vibrations comparable to a magnitude 1,8 earthquake. Fragments were eventually discovered, and debris was even detected by weather radar.

On June 26, a meteor that exploded over Atlanta produced a similar "lightning-like" signal on weather satellites.

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