Denmark’s Thriller Tremors Brought on by Acoustic Waves From Unknown Supply, Officers Say

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A sequence of minor tremors recorded on the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Saturday has puzzled scientists, who now say they have been attributable to ”acoustic strain waves from an unknown supply.”

At first the tremors have been thought to have been attributable to earthquakes. Then, seismologists theorized that they originated from managed explosions in Poland, greater than 140 kilometers (almost 90 miles) to the south.

On Monday, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, an official physique that displays the underground, mentioned the tremors have been “not attributable to earthquakes, however by strain waves from an occasion within the ambiance.” Nonetheless, they got here from “an unknown supply.”

“The seismologists can report that it’s unlikely that the tremors originate from a managed explosion in Poland, which was carried out shortly earlier than the primary studies of tremors on Bornholm,” the physique often called GEUS mentioned in an announcement.

On Saturday, GEUS mentioned it had obtained “greater than 60” ideas from individuals on Bornholm that “earthquake-like tremors” – described as a deep rumbling, shaking and rattling, altering strain within the ear — had been reported within the afternoon on Bornholm.

Nobody was damage. Police mentioned they too have been contacted by members of the general public concerning the tremor on the jap a part of the island. Danish media reported that the tremors prompted a crack within the wall of a home.

GEUS mentioned that seismic tremors have been measured at a magnitude of two.3.

Polish authorities have mentioned that there was intensive exercise through the Anakonda23 train in Ustka, northern Poland, involving jet fighters and dwell firing of artillery munitions.

GEUS, an impartial analysis and advisory establishment inside Denmark’s Ministry of Local weather, Vitality and Utilities, mentioned that it had two seismographs on Bornholm that accumulate information across the clock.

Bornholm, residence to almost 40,000 individuals, is a rocky island within the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.

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