National Weather Service provides answers on loud sound and shaking in the Topsail Area [Video]

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – It’s been the talk on social media. Topsail residents took to Facebook to describe a strange rattling or boom in the area around 10:00 Monday night.

Some said they could feel their houses shake.

“It was just a jolt,” said Richard Vessov who lives in Surf City.

Gloria Metts felt it, too.

“My daughter ran out of bed and was like ‘What is that?’ So my husband ran outside and checked and before he could even come back in every neighbor was texting my phone, ‘Did you feel that? What was that?’” said Metts.

It’s the same question so many others from Surf City to Hampstead are asking.

The National Weather Service said it was probably not an earthquake, but it’s possible. The meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service says it’s hard to say what it is.

Steve Pfaff, the meterologist-in-charge says there was no seismic activity detected. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t an earthquake.

He …