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What does that cloud formation have to do with earthquakes? That cloud was filmed in Boulder, not anywhere near southern California. The light thing seems prett

by moftz 7y ago

What does that cloud formation have to do with earthquakes? That cloud was filmed in Boulder, not anywhere near southern California. The light thing seems pretty neat and there looks to be a bunch of possible explanations for the source. Although some of the videos I watched looked more like flashes of electricity coming from powerlines snapping or transformers blowing which could definitely happen if the earth was shifting.

Raphmedia 7y ago
I'm just the messenger, I have not spent any time researching the details of those claims. There's some overlapping between some online communities I participate in and the doomsday preppers/tracker community so that's why I stumbled on this. The Wikipedia page for Earthquake Lights talks about lights as far as 740 km from the epicenter, so I'd bet that's the answer people who associate those with the quakes will tell you. As I said take it with a grain of salt.
zamalek 7y ago
> What does that cloud formation have to do with earthquakes? Last I read about the alleged phenomena, you're supposedly looking for straight line or ripple clouds that form in seconds. The explanation is that some mechanism (originally friction) is boiling groundwater; but proponents can no longer agree on what mechanism leads to formation of the clouds.
- harshreality 7y ago
  Why would earthquakes cause a significant amount of groundwater to boil? Supposing there were enough water vapor to do that, how would boiling groundwater form clouds at all, much less in seconds? There's still a lot of earth in the way between the fault and the sky. Ground shaking does not mean that energy is converted into heat. Does the ground feel hot after an earthquake? Warm at all? Earthquakes, right? Not volcanoes or magma chambers? If this phenomenon were real, wouldn't you expect it to occur right before a volcanic eruption, which actually involves large amounts of magma, near the surface, which could actually vaporize large amounts of groundwater? As far as I can tell, that doesn't happen either. The water vapor erupts with the molten rock, and mainly condenses into volcanic clouds because it has volcanic particles to condense around, not because the water vapor itself is enough to form clouds on its own before dissipating.

by moftz 7y ago

Raphmedia 7y ago

I'm just the messenger, I have not spent any time researching the details of those claims. There's some overlapping between some online communities I participate in and the doomsday preppers/tracker community so that's why I stumbled on this. The Wikipedia page for Earthquake Lights talks about lights as far as 740 km from the epicenter, so I'd bet that's the answer people who associate those with the quakes will tell you. As I said take it with a grain of salt.

zamalek 7y ago

> What does that cloud formation have to do with earthquakes? Last I read about the alleged phenomena, you're supposedly looking for straight line or ripple clouds that form in seconds. The explanation is that some mechanism (originally friction) is boiling groundwater; but proponents can no longer agree on what mechanism leads to formation of the clouds.

harshreality 7y ago
Why would earthquakes cause a significant amount of groundwater to boil? Supposing there were enough water vapor to do that, how would boiling groundwater form clouds at all, much less in seconds? There's still a lot of earth in the way between the fault and the sky. Ground shaking does not mean that energy is converted into heat. Does the ground feel hot after an earthquake? Warm at all? Earthquakes, right? Not volcanoes or magma chambers? If this phenomenon were real, wouldn't you expect it to occur right before a volcanic eruption, which actually involves large amounts of magma, near the surface, which could actually vaporize large amounts of groundwater? As far as I can tell, that doesn't happen either. The water vapor erupts with the molten rock, and mainly condenses into volcanic clouds because it has volcanic particles to condense around, not because the water vapor itself is enough to form clouds on its own before dissipating.