Meteor explodes over US with blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT

A meteor traveling at thens of thousands of miles an hour triggered a loud boom and ground shaking that were felt across Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon.

On Saturday afternoon, police departments in Massachusetts began receiving calls of a loud boom coming from the sky.

The boom was so powerful that it left windows rattling, buildings shaking and leaving people in panic across Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Preliminary data suggests it may have been caused by a large meteor entering the atmosphere, after GOES-19 detected a significant flash with no associated thunderstorm activity.