WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Almost 80 Central Texas residents who allege their homes have been damaged by SpaceX’s “daily barrage of terrestrial bombardment” are suing Elon Musk’s aerospace company in McGregor.

The 77 plaintiffs, residents of McGregor, Moody, Crawford and Oglesby, collectively are seeking more than $1 million in damages in their lawsuit, filed Friday in Waco’s 414^th State District Court.

The lawsuit alleges gross negligence and trespass and claims that regular rocket testing by SpaceX“ continues to physically, intentionally, and voluntarily cause massive airborne acoustic pressure waves and ground-borne seismic shockwaves to physically enter and invade Plaintiffs’ properties.”

SpaceX did not respond to an email seeking comment on the lawsuit, which was filed the same week as a federal lawsuit in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in which 80 South Texas residents claim their homes were damaged by “massive” sonic booms from the SpaceX facility in South Texas.

Both lawsuits were filed by the Martinez and Tijerina law firm in Brownsville.

“Plaintiffs are innocent bystanders caught in the blast radius of SpaceX’s industrial ambitions,” the lawsuit alleges. “…The continuous shaking and acoustic resonance have caused severe, escalating property damage across these communities.”

The plaintiffs’ homes are “literally cracking under the pressure, suffering from fractured foundations, differential settlement and compromised structural integrity” due to the rocket tests, the lawsuit claims.

“Beyond this gradual degradation, SpaceX’s explosive testing anomalies have caused acute trauma including glass doors violently shattered by sudden blast waves,” the suit alleges.

According to the lawsuit, the 4,000-acre SpaceX industrial complex in McGregor is “far from a mere research outpost.”

“SpaceX has transformed the McGregor site into an integrated mass-production and testing hub, recognized by aerospace observers as the world’s most active rocket engine test facility.

“It is here that SpaceX manufactures and rigorously qualifies its legacy Merlin engines and its next-generation Raptor engines at an unprecedented, industrial scale,” the suit states.

Unlike SpaceX’s orbital launch facilities in South Texas or Florida, rockets don’t lift off at the McGregor facility. Instead, the site operates as a static fire engine proving ground, the lawsuit contends.

The lawsuit alleges the Raptor 3 engines exceed 600,000 pounds of thrust during testing.

“Because the engines are rigidly tethered to the earth, this unprecedented kinetic and acoustic energy cannot be expended by lifting a vehicle into the atmosphere,” according to the lawsuit. “Instead, it is driven violently outward through two destructive pathways: as a concussive, airborne acoustic wave that batters above-ground structures, and as a sustained, ground-borne seismic tremor that physically shakes the subterranean foundations of neighboring homes.”