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Posted on 08/27/2014 6:24:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) – Several people called the KPIX 5 newsroom after Sunday morning’s magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa, reporting mysterious flashes of light in the sky. Witnesses said the strange phenomenon looked like lightning.
Similar flashes of light have been reported in earthquakes around the world, from Japan to Peru
Friedemann Freund, a scientist with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, said the same thing happened during Sunday morning’s earthquake. And it wasn’t a transformer blowing up or UFOs.
“What they are, are a consequence of the stresses building up deep below the earth, seven miles like in the case of the Napa Valley earthquake,” Freund told KPIX 5.
He calls the phenomenon “earthquake lights,” the quick buildup of stress that causes an electric current to flow to the surface and burst through the earth. This typically happens before or during an earthquake.
Several North Bay witnesses contacted Freund at the SETI Institute about seeing several flashes around the time the Napa quake hit. They said there was one or two seconds between each one.
Piezoelectric phenomenon?
LSD flashbacks?
I know very little about earthquakes but I am sure I have read somewhere that they often cause that phenomena.
Try again:
I’m not sure it means anything, but what if it does?
There are lots of reports from Japan about this. If you crush rock in s press, you get flashes of light. My best guess is triboelectricity or a piezoelectric effect.
Yup.. piezoelectric effect, quartz when compressed or stressed can cause a discharge, sounds similar to a St Elmo like event
So that's a valid observation.
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The first time I ever heard of this earthquake and blasts of light phenomenon was while reading about the Shroud of Turin. It was suggested as one possible explanation for how the image got on the cloth.
This sentence puts UFO's on the same possibility scale as transformers blowing up.
By the way - transformers don't blow up - they just die.
“Transformers blowing?
Exactly. I saw a guy being interviewed on TV and he reported watching the transfromers blow up around town.
“Piezoelectric phenomenon?”
I think that is basically what it is. I heard about this from relatives who were in a large one around Eureka CA around 1980
It seems to me that all of that rock rubbing against each other would cause massive static electricity build-up between the Earth and the atmosphere. Seems almost like common sense to me.
Almost certainly a piezoelectric or triboelectric phenomenon.
Blowing their Depends?
If they were ready for the end it wouldn’t frighten them so much.
During the Northridge quake, I was at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory high on a mountain overlooking the entire San Fernando Valley watching it all unfold. There were transformers blowing up every place you looked.
HAARP. Well, maybe. There has been a lot of speculation about this device. And some folks have witnessed the lights from it. There were flashes of lights in China a couple of years ago the night before an 8 magnitude earthquake, and some reported lights before the 9 magnitude in Chili a few years ago.
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