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This phenomenon is common enough that it has a Wikipedia entry [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake
by revscat 3y ago
This phenomenon is common enough that it has a Wikipedia entry [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
- uoaei 3y agoWow, some of the examples on YouTube are quite spectacular. Here's an example that shows the peculiar blue color pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjqxiSxhNCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjqxiSxhNCw
- jrockway 3y agoI think these are just electrical infrastructure shorting out. It's pretty obvious for the ones that occur at ground level on the horizon. The cloud lighting up blue is something obscured at ground level but reflected by the clouds. Similar effect as "power flashes" from tornadoes; tornado blows on power lines, power lines short out, blue arc is produced, everything is bright blue for miles for a bit.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoI don’t think there was electrical infrastructure in 869 CE.
- 1234letshaveatw 3y ago[flagged]
- lunarimiso 3y agoNor did substantial evidence
- dboreham 3y agoPossible. A few years ago a 33KV line came down onto the interstate near me, very early in the morning as I was heading out onto the road a couple of miles away and over a hill. From my viewpoint it looked like an alien abduction scene. In fact that was my best guess until I crested the hill and started to understand what had happened.
- ethbr1 3y agoI've never seen a high voltage line come down, but I did see a residential neighborhood distribution line start arcing. The color and sound were unlike anything I've ever seen or heard. From memory, something like a blue'd lightning bolt without thunder + the sound of 100 giant hornets shifted down in frequency. If you've ever seen welding light in person, imagine that intensified a couple orders of magnitude.
- Aachen 3y agoThe wind makes that it probably doesn't come across as as loud as it was, but something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaIChPiiww&t=11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaIChPiiww&t=11
- ethbr1 3y agoYup! That's missing some of the low frequencies I remember, but captures the mid-high. I guess "incredibly loud sheet of paper tearing" would have been another description.
- bluescrn 3y agoSounds like it'd be intense enough to illuminate the base of low clouds at night, which would explain (most of?) what seems to be visible in that video.
- hadlock 3y agoYeah we would see these in Texas during snow storms. That blue green flash is typical for transformers. I took a video many years ago (with a consumer grade camera, which were terrible back then, especially in low light), you can see the flash just after the 1:50 mark https://youtu.be/UXf2N1iQ0Wc?si=d6QwBqqY9j1xl_7R&t=109 https://youtu.be/UXf2N1iQ0Wc?si=d6QwBqqY9j1xl_7R&t=109
- Aachen 3y agoHow do you know that's transformers? And doesn't this shut them down / why is it so regular that you knew to start filming?
- hadlock 3y agoYou see them blow during thunderstorms driving down the highway or across a bridge. Dallas gets an alarming amount of thunder during the summer as squall lines sweep across the state every week or two. I would imagine this was a cascade failure. I was reading a book of watching a movie and saw them out of the corner of my eye and finally decided to start filming.
- dekhn 3y agoWithout commenting on this specific set of videos, it is already generally considered established that there are bright sky flashes before earthquakes that are not related to electrical infrastructure, but rather, natural in origin.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoOh yeah they are 100% electrical arcs.
- jscottnz 3y agoWow. I was watching this, then looked at the title… what the?! I live there!
- beepbopboopp 3y agoThis is crazy. I vividly remember being a child during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (Los Angeles) and driving with my father (who had to pick me up from a friends) and seeing the sky more of a flashing fuschia color.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoI was in the same quake and the sky looked glowy green to me. But I was out by the Paramount Ranch so less densely populated than most areas.
- dylan604 3y agoExcept, aren't these occurring during/after the shaking, not moments before. It really hurts my brain to try to even get to the level of thinking some people can just accept as a-okay
- randomdata 3y agoHow is that not transformer explosions? It looks exactly the same to my eye. https://youtu.be/q1_ZtCXLnes https://youtu.be/q1_ZtCXLnes
- wackget 3y ago50% of that video is waiting for something to happen.
- fredoliveira 3y agoIt is a 39 second video. You'll live to see it in its entirety.
- twobitshifter 3y agoEven in that one you can see some electrical equipment blowing at 08:47
- wheelerof4te 3y agoCommon enough but it still lacks an explanation. They don't know what causes these flashes. That is the point.
- mholt 3y agoWhy are these flashes definitely not transformer stations or similar? Seems like an obvious answer from my armchair at least. Earthquake wave travels from epicenter to camera, and on its way it shorts out power infrastructure.
- Izkata 3y agoThe wikipedia page mentions occurrences in the years 869 and 1888.
- almostnormal 3y agoEven back at those times earth quakes (2 miles/s) were a bit slower than the speed of light.
- Izkata 3y agoI don't know about 1888, but I'm fairly sure that electrical infrastructure didn't exist over a thousand years ago.
- lunarimiso 3y agoWell, with that attitude it didn't
- wheelerof4te 3y agoIt did exist before the Younger Drias period, though. Atlantians used it to power their space ships.
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