Readers incorrectly guessed the boom was caused by a small earthquake, a meteor or sonic boom
At 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Veikko Alopaeus had risen from his afternoon nap and was talking to his sister on the phone.Like many of us, Alopaeus is used to hearing sounds from the steel mill."This was very loud indeed," he told SooToday.Alopaeus's wife and sister both figured it was probably thunder from a passing storm.Alopaeus captured the big boom on his security camera."The video doesn't sound as loud as it sounded in my ears.
The resulting reaction caused a fire in a piece of mobile equipment at the plant, causing one employee to be treated on-site for undisclosed injuries. Several locals living near Algoma Steel compared the sound of Monday afternoon’s incident to the one that occurred last week. Before Algoma Steel confirmed it was another case of water coming into contact with slag, readers had a number of theories on what the mystery sound could have been.To rule out any extraordinary theories, SooToday reached out to the Canadian Space Agency to confirm whether something may have entered the atmosphere.
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