Kanawha emergency dispatchers were fielding dozens of Tuesday after a loud boom rocked several homes in Charleston and eastern Kanawha County.

Dispatchers began receiving calls a little before 5:30 p.m. from concerned residents wondering about the sound.

People in the Ariel Heights and Falling Run Road areas, both near Oakridge Drive, told dispatchers they heard a loud booming noise and felt their homes shake. Dispatchers said those callers reported their power still was on and they had not seen any smoke.

Callers reported hearing the sound on Garrison Avenue and feeling it in Fort Hill. Dispatchers said calls came in from all over the county but no one had been able to pinpoint where the noise came from or what caused it.

Dispatchers said first responders were on the lookout for anything that could have caused the noise but the source remained unknown.

A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Charleston said there was a “zero percent” chance the sound was thunder and that the office had not received any reports of any possible earthquake.