Either will power was battling hope or maybe they just had an abundance of both.
People escaping from Davey Jones locker?
Cthulthu and the Old Ones.
Lovecraft was right.
Piezo-electricity.................
It seems to me that the movement of plates could theoretically affect that magnetic signature of the earth (at least regionally) and result in some kind of aurora. Just a guess, though.
I took a look at the quake pattern in NZ.
Unlike classic aftershocks, this looks more like a zipper pattern.
Very unusual and probably not a good sign.
Either will power was battling hope or maybe they just had an abundance of both.
It was transformers on power lines blowing, that is all, the same thing happened in Seattle a decade ago during a big earth quake. I watched them blow daisy chain style, huge explosions too.
Aliens.
Trump’s fault.
Ben, I wrote a news article for the American Weather Observer back in the late 1980s that described this phenomenon. It is called the piezo-electric effect. When pressure is placed on rock it produces electro-static light which comes in an array of colors; mostly blue and green.
Isn’t nature amazing?
I saw a documentary on his a while ago. It is likely caused by bedrock becoming semi conductive under massive pressure.
Over the past few years, various theories have been proposed for how earthquake lights form, including the disruption of the Earth's magnetic field by tectonic stress and the so-called piezoelectric effect, in which quartz-bearing rocks produce voltages when compressed in a certain way.
But Freund and colleagues now report that what causes earthquake lights appears to be an entirely different electrical process.
"When nature stresses certain rocks, electric charges are activated, as if you switched on a battery in the Earth's crust," he says.
The types of rocks that are particularly given to the phenomenon are basalts and gabbros, which have tiny defects in their crystals. When a seismic wave hits, electrical charges in the rocks may be released.
In some areas, basalts and gabbros are present in vertical structures called dikes, which formed as magma cooled along vertical faults and may reach as deep as 60 miles (97 kilometers) underground. These dikes may funnel electrical charges along, the scientists wrote. "The charges can combine and form a kind of plasma-like state, which can travel at very high velocities and burst out at the surface to make electric discharges in the air," Freund added. Those discharges are what make the colorful light shows.
The right conditions for lights exist in less than 0.5 percent of earthquakes worldwide, the scientists estimate, which explains why the phenomena are relatively rare.
it was transformers blowing up
It was the Enterprise relieving pressure in the earth’s core, without violating the Prime Directive.
Could be caused by increased methane seepage mixed with sulfur compounds — both are very natural constituents in the earth’s upper crust.
The liberals will blame that on Bush.....,uh,....sorry,.....Trump.
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