A massive explosion was heard in London and Cambridge from a fighter jet’s sonic boom.

Residents have described their houses ‘rocketing’ and ‘shaking’ after the jet ‘made a hell of a bang’.

A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound.

It is thought the boom came from an RAF Typhoon travelling south over Cambridge.

One person tweeted: ‘RAF Typhoon just made one heck of a sonic boom over Cambridgeshire. Nearly fell out of my chair.’

Another said: ‘Sounds like the whole Romford area felt it, whole house shook and you could feel it in the ground.

They added: ‘Sonic boom makes sense, my first thought was that nearby construction collapsed.’

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