According to scientist Friedemann Freund, who works at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, the earthquake lights are not from UFOs or explosions. They are naturally occurring phenomenons that take place when stress builds up below the earths surface. The stress of the earthquake on rocks underneath the ground causes an electric current to blast its way to the surface of Earth, shooting into the sky as a burst of colorful light. The earthquake lights seen in Napa Valley were reportedly visible in bursts, with one or two seconds between each flash. The lights were like reverse lightning, shooting from the ground. Freund says that these lights arent so rare and they have been reported from earthquakes around the world, from Japan to Peru. His research team had been conducting ongoing research for the past 12 years, investigating at least 65 historic occurrences of earthquake lights, why they form and how they form, including different varieties of lights. When nature stresses certain rocks, electric charges are activated, as if you switched on a battery in the Earths crust, he said. Three historic examples include the 1988 quake along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Eleven days prior to the quake, residents in the area reported a bright purple pink globe of light emanating from just above the ground. In 1906, the people of San Francisco, California, documented faint rainbows of light appearing just before a major quake struck the region. In LAquila, Italy, in 2009, four-inch flames of light appeared to be bursting above the street just seconds before the earthquake hit. Learn more: naturalnews/046650_earthquake_mysterious_lights_California.html##ixzz3BqBaEOQz
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:02:42 +0000
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