Residents in three districts of Odisha were overcome with fear after hearing a loud noise on Wednesday morning that sounded like a bomb going off.
In the districts of Keonjhar, Jajpur, Bhadrak, and Anandapur, people reported hearing the deafening noise. After hearing a tremendous boom that sounded like a bomb going off, people could be seen running out of their homes.
However, the cause of the sound has not yet been identified.
Some individuals think the sound might have originated from mine zones where large amounts of explosive material are being used for blasts.
A section of people also attributed the sound to sonic boom of SU-30 MKI that was reportedly airborne from Kalaikunda airbase, Kharagpur.
The National Centre for Seismology hasn’t mentioned anything about earthquake in Odisha. “Today, tremors of earthquake were reported only in Maharashtra. The loud sound in Odisha’s 3 districts is not linked to earthquake,” informed IMD Bhubaneswar.
Prasanta Patnaik 
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