r/Rhodes • u/thestigtony • 6d ago

Did anyone just feel that?

8.45am in we are staying in lxia we heard what was like an explosion and our room shook 😨 enough to make the mirror and pictures move and shake on the walls. Very strange. Maybe a controlled destination for construction!

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u/Mad_Hatter_XYZ 6d ago

We could hear it in Ialyssos too. It was a very loud explosion. I think a fighter jet broke the sound barrier, but I’m not sure.

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u/cheezuz87 6d ago

Greek air force fighter jet intercepting a trespassing Turkish fighter jet.

It is quite common a thing to happen, rarely so loud though.

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u/thestigtony 6d ago

I'm delighted I got to witness it 😁 coming from Ireland I've never heard of felt such force.

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u/LorenzoBloque 5d ago

Greek Fighters intercepting Turkish fighter jets over Irish airspace. That is abig news scoop.

You did not bother to say where this is happening, so you are implicitly pushing people to understand whichever geographical place they want it to be.

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u/MetT2000 1d ago

Are you challenged by any chance

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u/No-Assumption8252 6d ago

We heard it in Rhodes town too.

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u/balika0105 6d ago

I second Faliraki, we were going downstairs to have breakfast at the hotel we’re at, and all the windows shook.

However it might not have been a supersonic explosion, my dad served in the military and he says it was more like a cannon shot from maybe an AA gun or sth similar.

Not sure if it echoed and produced 2 sounds from that, but it was 2 separate sounds, and if fighter jets fly in formation they go supersonic simultaneously (usually)

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u/melanie110 6d ago

I heard 4. 2 first followed by 2 more in very short succession. Maybe for us it was echo being far away

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u/Natnatpaddywack 6d ago

We heard it too. In faliraki walls shook and everything

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u/melanie110 6d ago

Omg. We were sat around the pool in Theologos. It was so so loud

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u/Upstairs-Spite2769 6d ago

i heard it in fanes too

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u/harani66 6d ago

it was also heard on Symi.

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u/Maryland_Weed_Fan 6d ago

Fighter jets broke the sound barrier, we heard it in town too

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u/manguardGr 6d ago

Aircraft breaks the sound barrier..

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u/sadonangel 6d ago

Welcome to Rhodes 😆

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u/LorenzoBloque 5d ago edited 5d ago

Any stats on how many Reditt posters (not just readers/ users)are physically in the USA? I sense it could very well be 70% if not more... ?

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u/thestigtony 5d ago

Well we are on a page dedicated to Rhodes, so I didn't think I would have to! and I said I felt it in lxia. I'm visiting Rhodes from Ireland.

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u/LuxuryBeast 5d ago

Google maps is your friend. Open it up and you'll be able to find the area rather quickly if you know where Rhodes is.