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Mexico earthquake: Mysterious green flashes light up the sky after tremor
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Posted on 09/08/2017 7:33:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Mysterious green and blue flashes were seen by witnesses in Mexico City after it was rocked by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake.

The powerful quake set off a tsunami warning for at least eight countries – and at least six people have been confirmed dead in the most powerful quake to strike the country for 100 years.

A video of the earthquake lights was captured by a witness – capturing a strange, little-understood phenomenon.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: earthquake; earthquakelights; flashes; mexico
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To: BenLurkin

If you go back and read the first-hand historical accounts of the massive New Madrid earthquake and aftershocks (1811 - 1812) you would see many multiple accounts of the exact same phenomenon.


21 posted on 09/08/2017 7:56:42 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: lgjhn23

Too much guacamole causes this usually followed by a loud noise and foul smell


22 posted on 09/08/2017 7:56:57 AM PDT by salmon76
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To: BenLurkin

Lightning is commonly generated during seismic events. It is the piezoelectric effect of compressing crystals.
Since it is ground generated rather than sky generated, it probably has some metallic ion content associated with the minerals found in the ground where it emanated. Copper for green, cobalt for blue, calcium for red, iron for orange, sodium for yellow, etc.


23 posted on 09/08/2017 7:58:46 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: SomeCallMeTim

They like to do that but the other planets have extremely slight effect on earth’s orbit. For example the gravitational effect on you caused by Jupiter is less than the gravitational effect of your refridgerator while you are standing next to it. It’s the sun and moon that dominate gravitationally.


24 posted on 09/08/2017 8:02:50 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin

Exploding guacamole...


25 posted on 09/08/2017 8:03:47 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not so mysterious. Probably just power line transformers blowing. Seen it many times during heavy wind/rain storms when tree limbs knock down power lines. I suspect an earthquake could cause similar damage when buildings are coming down.


26 posted on 09/08/2017 8:06:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe now you will start listening to Frank Hoogerbeets!


27 posted on 09/08/2017 8:09:25 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Seruzawa

lol figures. I do have a pretty BIG refrigerator!


28 posted on 09/08/2017 8:24:01 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: smokingfrog

Ehhhhh...........errrrrrrrrrr........uhhhhhhhh........ No


29 posted on 09/08/2017 8:25:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Very cool. I think spiritually about almost everything so I was imagining the demons rising out of the fissures. Then I laughed thinking who sees them, the good or the bad?


30 posted on 09/08/2017 8:52:34 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

“Very cool. I think spiritually about almost everything so I was imagining the demons rising out of the fissures. Then I laughed thinking who sees them, the good or the bad?”

My wife laughs and says my devil eyes enable me to see the earthquake lights.

The CHP pilot while growing up spent a lot of time at our house with our sons. So I kid my wife back, and ask her if our CHP pilot is a devil? She just laughs.


31 posted on 09/08/2017 9:08:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: BenLurkin

Static electricity discharges.


32 posted on 09/08/2017 9:09:20 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

It’s all of Gaia’s green, leaving Mother Earth to escape the wrath of Trump, just like all those EPA employees fleeing the agency.


33 posted on 09/08/2017 9:32:19 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: BenLurkin

Trump’s fault!


34 posted on 09/08/2017 9:36:29 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, they did just launch the X37-B ... I’d say the test was a rousing success. Now have it fly a racetrack pattern above NK and send a private message to the fatboi. Let’s peg his pucker factor off-scale high.


35 posted on 09/08/2017 9:41:32 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Exactly... at night sets off very bright, usually bluish, flashes and often sounds like an explosion.


36 posted on 09/08/2017 9:51:02 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Reno89519

There was just a huge solar flare released from a sunspot last week.


37 posted on 09/08/2017 9:51:36 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: BenLurkin

Swamp gas.


38 posted on 09/08/2017 10:44:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: salmon76

‘...Too much guacamole causes this usually followed by a loud noise and foul smell...”

Oh, you mean like the GOPe Congress when dealing with ObamaCare? I get it...LOL


39 posted on 09/08/2017 11:29:14 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Thanks.


40 posted on 09/08/2017 2:31:53 PM PDT by 353FMG
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