At around 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, January 16th, there was a loud thunder-like boom and a bright light in the skies of southern Michigan that was a meteor large enough to cause an earthquake that had a 2.0 magnitude on seismographs in New Haven in Macomb County. The boom that echoed throughout the night was not the sound of the meteor exploding; it was a sonic boom from it traveling more than 40 times the speed of sound. NASA has announced that the meteor was 6 feet wide when it exploded with the power of 10 tons of TNT. Todd Slisher, executive director of Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium, has said that the meteor probably exploded several miles above Earth and that the explosion caused the meteor to shatter into many pieces the size of pebbles or smaller. The head of astronomy at Cranbrook has reported that the debris of the meteor may have landed near Mount Clemens.