Remember Corsica from Tamasha? A mysterious sonic boom has rattled French island
A screengrab from 'Tamasha' trailer alongside visuals of reported sonic boom in Corsica
Remember Corsica,the French island made famous by popular comic book character Asterix?Well, for the lovers of Hindi cinema, it's the island Ved and Tara went holidaying in Imtiaz Ali's 2015 film Tamasha.
Corsica is back in the newswith a bang, quite literally, as the authorities reported a sonic boom on the picturesque island on Thursday (June 20).
Experts said that the sonic boom heard in Italy's Tuscany and the French island of Corsica may have been a meteorite. The sonic boom was initially mistaken by holidaymakers, locals and officials for an earthquake.
The town of Campo nell’Elba, on the Italian tourist island of Elba, said on its Facebook page that a nearby tracking station had “captured a seismic, acoustic event felt by everyone” at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT).
Later, reports in the Corsican media said it was also felt on the island.
Tuscany regional government president Eugenio Giani initially said it was an earthquake. But Giani later backtracked from his comments as Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) ruled out an earthquake.
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The Italian Air Force told Giani it had nothing to do with the sonic boom.
"The type of event which caused the tremor, felt by many as an earthquake over the entire coast of Tuscany and in some inland areas, is currently unconfirmed," Giani wrote on social media.
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The region's Geophysics Institute and the University of Florence said in a joint statement that whatever caused the boom was travelling at 400 miles per second.
"A meteorite entering the atmosphere seems the most likely and in line with the data registered".
The Corriere della Sera daily quoted an unnamed person from Italy's civil protection agency saying "the impact would have been registered by seismographs. The most likely hypothesis is still an airplane".
Notably, it's not the first time a mysterious sonic boom has been registered. Similar events in 2012, 2016 and 2023 have yet to be explained.
(With inputs from agencies)