Best Answer: According to Doreen Virtue (known as the Angel lady) there are 15 of them. Archangel: Michael, Metatron, Gabriel, Jophiel, Ariel, Haniel, Raphael, Azrael, Jeremiel, Raguel, Chamuel, Raziel, Sandalphon, Zadkiel and Uriel.
Thunder is the name given to the loud sound waves created by lightning. The lightning channel heats and expands quickly and explosively, causing a violent disturbance in the air surrounding the strike that radiates outward for a short distance as a supersonic (faster than sound) shock wave.
Did it explode? Nope! You can still see it flying. Then what was that sound? It was a sonic boom. A sonic boom is a loud sound kind of like an explosion. It's caused by shock waves created by any object that travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms create huge amounts of sound energy. When an object moves through the air, it makes pressure waves in front of and behind it.