Meteor Lights Up The Sky Across Michigan
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(CNN) -- The U.S. Geologic Survey says a meteor lit up the skies across Michigan Tuesday night. Many residents in the area reported seeing the fireball and hearing a boom while others captured it on social media.
The flash and boom was "NOT thunder or lightning, but instead a likely meteor," tweeted the National Weather Service (NWS) for Detroit.
The meteor lit up the southeast Michigan skies and caused a magnitude 2.0 earthquake 40 miles from Detroit, according to the NWS.
The earthquake was centered about five miles west-southwest of New Haven, MI, and the NWS says the meteor occurred around 8:10 p.m. ET.
The massive, flash of light was captured on people's cameras attached to their homes and cars, which was then posted on social media.
Did you see the meteor!? How cool. Mike Austin sends this video from Southern Michigan. It lit up the sky for a few seconds! pic.twitter.com/jWx1xF6b0q
— Matt Rudkin (@MattRudkinWSBT) January 17, 2018
Chelsea Means captured the moment on her security cameras. Although she didn't see the light, she told CNN that she heard a "loud thunder, rumble noise."
"It shook my house," she said. "At first, it sounded like someone hitting my house."
What my security cam caught during the #meteor in #Michigan pic.twitter.com/8vR2Xc3aoa
— Andrea (@cozy2963) January 17, 2018
The Ingham County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management received several 911 calls and tweeted: "There is no need to call 911. All indications are that it was just a natural meteor fireball."
It also stated that no fires had been reported as a result of the meteor.
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