Languages: English. A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media initially mistook the sound for an earthquake.

For instance, most sonic booms have two shock waves, but the Falcon 9 booster produces a boom with three shocks as it descends through the atmosphere after launch. Gee co-authored a paper earlier ...

Southern California residents heard a sonic boom on Saturday. It was caused by SpaceX Dragon spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere. The spacecraft carried research and supplies from the ...

Following what many believed was an earthquake that rocked Los Angeles, it was revealed that it was actually a sonic boom from the SpaceX Dragon capsule. Sonic boom, not earthquake: SpaceX Dragon ...

No, that wasn’t an earthquake. A sonic boom caused by a SpaceX cargo vessel rattled Los Angeles late Saturday evening. Residents across a broad swath of the region reported a loud boom and ...

Most of Southern California felt the shaking from a brief sonic boom created as SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday night. "Dragon is on track to reenter Earth's ...

A SpaceX vehicle that has spent about a month docked at the International Space Station on a resupply mission triggered a sonic boom as it made landing off the coast of California on Saturday ...

A sonic boom shook parts of Southern California on Saturday night as an unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere and landed in the ocean off Oceanside. The spacecraft was ...

LOS ANGELES — A sonic boom shook part of Southern California Saturday night as SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. According to the Hawthorne-based company, the ...