Posted on 09/13/2023 11:11:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Following Morocco’s devastating earthquake last week, videos emerged online of what appeared to be mysterious lights in the sky before the tremor hit.
Blue lights in the sky can be seen flashing above Agadir at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in just hours before Morocco’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck.
The sightings have baffled onlookers.
“The [Morocco] earthquake happened at nighttime,” geophysicist Dr Friedemann Freund told The Washington Post.
“The condition for earthquake lights to be seen by people and maybe even recorded by cameras would be relatively high,” he said.
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The unusual lights are thought to occur amid the changes to Earth’s magnetic field, like during an earthquake.
Lights were reported to have appeared before Italy’s historic city of L’Aquila just seconds before an earthquake struck in 2009.
Lights also appeared along the sky near the St. Lawrence River in Quebec in 1988, 11 days before a powerful quake.
As the Daily Mail reported, Geologists said the 6.8 magnitude tremor was the biggest quake to hit the heart of the country in more than 120 years and the deadliest in six decades.
Aljazeer reported that almost 3,000 people are said to have died in the earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday, but the death toll continues to rise as search and rescue teams comb through mountains of rubble.
Hopes of finding survivors are fading, given that blocked roads impede access to the worst-hit areas in remote villages in rural, mountainous regions.
Morocco is now well past the 72-hour window when rescues are considered most likely, yet survivors are sometimes found well beyond that period.
The death toll currently stands at 2,901, Morocco’s Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday, and 5,530 have been injured in the country’s deadliest earthquake since 1960 and the most powerful since 1900.
Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain roads to deliver desperately needed food and tents to survivors. Search teams were in places still scouring the rubble for the living.
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When the lights do ninety degree turns and start moving in circles both individually and then together and then go up and down and then up again it is all natural....
Lol.
This is a pretty well known phenomenon.
...and move faster than an SR-71.................
“The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.”
Awesome song. The “engineering” is unparalleled.
Alan Parsons was engineer on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon..................
Piezo electric effect. Just like the lighters that snap/click - I think these bend a quartz crystal or something like that. Lots of rock moving in the crust. That’s one conjecture.
Not a good thing to see, but maybe someday an alert system could be tied to cell phone or sirens to warn get out of buildings? Another sign is animals and birds acting strangely.
Kinda looks like a string of aircraft lined up for landing to me...is there an airbase around that area?
Ball lightning.
Swamp gas.
I’ve heard of this before other earthquakes in the past.
I’ve heard of the phenomenon before. IIRC it has something to do with friction between shifting plates building up and discharging static electricity.
Chinese balloons causing earthquake?
(Like this conspiracy theory?)
Yep - piezo electric effect with quartz.
How does the piezo effect end up at stable positions in the sky with distinctive colors for each light? I’m not saying the piezo effect isn’t involved, but to think you’re explaining what’s happening by throwing out that term is presumptuous. There’s a lot we don’t know. In this case, I would expect a straightforward piezo effect to look more like a sheet or a curtain, similar to a shimmering aurora as opposed to LEDs hung in the sky.
“When the lights do ninety degree turns and start moving in circles both individually and then together and then go up and down and then up again it is all natural....”
Well, plasmas are natural, and if you’ve never seen the way plasmas can be induced to move in a lab setting simply by manipulating magnetic fields, you might be very surprised.
Those are Elon’s balls. Just about every night after sundown.
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