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Underground vibrations

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  • 08-05-2008 3:24pm
    #1
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know what is causing that vibration feeling and sound that can be noticed at random places around the city? And no, it's not my motorbike!

    Driving around on my bike, I keep noticing a very strong vibration coming from the road accompanied with a noticeable humming sound. It lasts maybe 20-30 seconds at a time and it's like the vibration you get from a hammer action drill as it drills into concrete.

    At first I thought they were doing repairs, but it's too common and all over the city.

    Any ideas, or am I delusional?


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    geeksquad
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    i suggest you get back on your medication :D


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    LostinBlanch
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    I have no idea, but if they had started boring the tunnel for the metro I'd say that was your answer right there.

    I don't think they have though.


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    ciaran76
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    Are you sure its not your bike ? :p

    The only place I have noticed this up near the Hunstown Quarry at the back of Ballycoolin. I know its to do with the quarry so wouldn't think anything more of it.

    The rest of Dublin I haven't a clue :confused:


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    gollyitsolly
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    Feck. Its my rampant rabbit.


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    Nevyn
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    rofl


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    gollyitsolly
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    rotflmaool(rollingonthefloorlaughingmyassoff).


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    Zaph
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    gollyitsolly wrote: »
    Feck. Its my rampant rabbit.

    I'm soooooo tempted to invoke the BGRH "pics or it didn't happen rule ;)


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    Nevyn
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    Let me guess it's called "Thumper".


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    santry_goonshow
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    Seriously though, I think its trucks roaring on streets that were never ever designed to take em


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    tony 2 tone
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    I felt rumbles last week, it was out near Rosemount. I think it was the blasting out in Huntstown quarry. But later on that day I was down in Blanch village and felt some strange rumbles with out any obvious reasons, like big trucks/busses going by.


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    gollyitsolly
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    tony 2 tone wrote: »
    I felt rumbles last week, it was out near Rosemount. I think it was the blasting out in Huntstown quarry. But later on that day I was down in Blanch village and felt some strange rumbles with out any obvious reasons, like big trucks/busses going by.
    Probably the roadworks under the m50 bridge. Theres also testing going on in Dublin to determine the noise and vibration impact of the Metro. I dont know the exact details, just a small article I read in a paper.


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    CrazyRabbit
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    This is vibrations lasting a good 10-20 seconds, and not rumbles as such.

    I noticed it on Upper Leeson Street today and the junction with the canal.

    Difficult to describe really, but it's like the vibrations you get from a pneumatic drill, but being used underground.

    I wondering if there are sewers/tunnels that are being repaired/dug in various parts of dublin?


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