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> For example, cameras caught clear images of earthquake lights in Pisco, Peru, in August 2007, during a magnitude 8 earthquake there. Oh, yeah? Too bad we don

> For example, cameras caught clear images of earthquake lights in Pisco, Peru, in August 2007, during a magnitude 8 earthquake there. Oh, yeah? Too bad we don't have the technology to share such images.

zzleeper 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj2PQ3onAL0#t=40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj2PQ3onAL0#t=40 Most of the cameras in this video were aimed towards the sea
- mapt 12y ago
  Color me skeptical. Power lines and transformers which arc as they are pulled apart by vibration make a hell of a lot more sense to me.
  - zzleeper 12y ago
    Totally agree about that. I think those are what most of us saw (I was there, and the lights I saw coincided with the power failing). HOWEVER: .. several of the cameras from the video were facing the ocean (i.e. the one at Larcomar, the mall in front of the sea, or the one at the airport, which is right next to the sea). Also, many people reported lights from either the ocean or from desert hills that lacked transmission towers or anything electric. Although I'm still not totally sold on the idea of rocks emitting light, I hope I won't have the chance to verify it for myself, as the experience of an entire pitch-black city being illuminated with light arks in the middle of an earthquake was scary enough.
    - jms 12y ago
      Try scraping two quartz crystals together and you'll see it for yourself! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
  - crorella 12y ago
    Having experienced the 6th largest earthquake ever recorded by a seismograph [1] I can assure you the lights I saw during that night were a lot brighter and higher in the sky, so power lines and transformers are ruled out. I was living fairly close to the epicenter (about 18 miles from the picture you can see in the wikipedia) and the lights were up for several minutes after the electricity went out. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
    - mapt 12y ago
      Clouds reflect light. Arcing can be extremely bright to night-adjusted eyes.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Contrast with a known transformer explosion in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94 0m15s and 2m55s. They're bright as all fuck and would light up the sky impressively.

zzleeper 12y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj2PQ3onAL0#t=40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj2PQ3onAL0#t=40 Most of the cameras in this video were aimed towards the sea

mapt 12y ago
Color me skeptical. Power lines and transformers which arc as they are pulled apart by vibration make a hell of a lot more sense to me.
- zzleeper 12y ago
  Totally agree about that. I think those are what most of us saw (I was there, and the lights I saw coincided with the power failing). HOWEVER: .. several of the cameras from the video were facing the ocean (i.e. the one at Larcomar, the mall in front of the sea, or the one at the airport, which is right next to the sea). Also, many people reported lights from either the ocean or from desert hills that lacked transmission towers or anything electric. Although I'm still not totally sold on the idea of rocks emitting light, I hope I won't have the chance to verify it for myself, as the experience of an entire pitch-black city being illuminated with light arks in the middle of an earthquake was scary enough.
  - jms 12y ago
    Try scraping two quartz crystals together and you'll see it for yourself! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
- crorella 12y ago
  Having experienced the 6th largest earthquake ever recorded by a seismograph [1] I can assure you the lights I saw during that night were a lot brighter and higher in the sky, so power lines and transformers are ruled out. I was living fairly close to the epicenter (about 18 miles from the picture you can see in the wikipedia) and the lights were up for several minutes after the electricity went out. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
  - mapt 12y ago
    Clouds reflect light. Arcing can be extremely bright to night-adjusted eyes.
dredmorbius 12y ago
Contrast with a known transformer explosion in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94 0m15s and 2m55s. They're bright as all fuck and would light up the sky impressively.