Boston Go BOOM!

Where’s the kaboom? Boston, that’s where! One Rainy Afternoon Last Saturday, 2026-May-30, at 2:06pm EDT (18:06 GMT) here at Château Weekend, we were just sitting on the couch reading. It was raining, so it was no particularly shocking thing to hear the boom of thunder. But… it was particularly loud thunder that shook not only the windows but the house. I thought maybe it was a nearby lightning strike, or at any rate thunder just above the house. But there was no flash, and the Weekend Editrix was suspicious. Later, it transpired that everybody in eastern Massachusetts thought the thunder was above wherever they were. And it was strong enough to register (slightly) on seismometers, like a potential earthquake. (I’ve experienced very, very minor earthquakes in the US, but recently I got to experience a moderate Japanese earthquake. We were eating dinner, and the house began shaking with an amplitude of about 0.5cm at a frequency between 0.5 Hz - 1.0 Hz. I carefully watched my family:…