Como dizer "barulho de bomba" em inglês

Amigo, eu diria diferente até em português isso:

I heard three bomb explosions.
I heard bomb explosions three times.

I heard three loud explosions/loud bangs. (loud enough to be heard miles away, so I/we assume it was a bomb).


Such loud explosions could describe from a gas explosion (an explosion from a gas leaking), a gas station going up... to a bomb explosion itself... So, depending on the country one is he could assume that it was a bomb or not. I know what you are talking about, recent news - but generally people are likely to say "ouvi um barulho parecido com uma bomba -ou um barulho parecido com o de uma bomba/parecia com uma bomba" etc...depending of the degree of emotion, fear, drama involved, etc.

In 1995 a military an ammunition depot in Brazil was rocked by a series of explosions, of course at that time there wasn´t such a terror-buzzword, so one would just say it were "loud explosions that happened".

Today perhaps they would said that were "bomb-explosion sounds" spot on...And then, would correct himself afterwards.
http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtu ... c3d500da1f

Let´s imagine it was just three, and we might have said "we heard three loud explosions."
Chemical Industry fires can also trigger similar explosions and (similar) subsequent sounds.

Essa se aplica?

"... heard three loud bangs."

Yes, it does.