Sen. Nelson needs to go home now and check it out.
Signs in the sun, the moon and the stars....
ping
3.5 is pretty small.
Regards,
TS
I’ve heard of Smokestack Lightening...by Howling Wolf...
I question the timing.
check this out!
The area S and W of Oklahoma City have had several earthquakes over the last couple of days. Range anywhere from 2.6 to 3.2.
There is only one explanation- Bush’s Fault.
It’s called “ball lightning” or “St. Elmo’s fire” and is a discharge of hot and highly ionized matter known as plasma. It’s been documented in Australia and a few other places as occuring before or during earthquakes.
SHAKEN AND SHOCKED
Are big quakes electrifying events? The rocks tell the tale.
It sounds like a paranormal phenomenon: people reporting an unexplained glow, lasting up to several minutes, near the epicenter of a major earthquake that takes place at night.
Such reports have come for decades from far-flung, seismically active places--from California and Oregon, Turkey, Chile, Japan. The tantalizing anecdotes suggest that big quakes generate brief but intense electrical currents that can create what amounts to a "spark" along a ruptured fault. The phenomenon, associated mainly with quakes over magnitude 6.0, gained some short-lived scientific attention in the 1970s, as well as a name--"earthquake lightning." But most scientists have not taken it very seriously. Eric Ferré does. If earthquake lightning exists, it may open possibilities for an earthquake early-warning network based not on seismic waves, which travel at about the speed of sound, but on electrical currents, which travel at the speed of light. Such a network, he says, could give near-real-time warning of a quake whose waves are still many minutes away from a big city.
Scientists in the United States, Europe, and Japan have scrutinized electrical data after the fact and have detected minute increases in electrical activity just before or during big quakes. They've suggested various alternative explanations for these findings, such as earthquake-triggered shifts in the water table or failure of power grids. So Ferré, an assistant professor of geology at SIUC, has gone to the rocks for answers.
The best evidence for earthquake lightning, he says, is locked up in dark veins that are often found cutting through rocks in quake-prone areas. The thin, sheet-like veins resemble a glassy black volcanic rock called tachylite--hence the name "pseudotachylites." Ferré calls them the "black boxes" of earthquakes because, he says, they record information crucial to understanding catastrophic seismic events.
3.5 small...now ball lightening is an interesting factor...
I recall reading of peculiar atmospheric effects preceding the big New Madrid quakes in the early 1800’s, but it didn’t involve anything like lightning. Wish I could remember the author, but he described a dark, oppressive pall, referred to it as a miasma, with odd odors. Can’t recall where it was, but Cape Girardeau springs to memory.
Of course, the fault system underlies parts of the riverbed itself, so that could explain part of it, odors and miasmas. But, not the unnatural, disturbing darkness described.
My guess - I am no geologist
Piezoelectric discharge?
Here in CA a 3.5 is like a “Thank you, Mom.”
I’m intrigued by the lightning and fireball though. We had a similar lightning display here during and after the Northridge quake. I’ve researched it and have some theories about what might cause it.
Tin foil thought: What if this is a test of an Earthquake causing weapon?
It would come in handy if the area around the nuke sites in NK and Iran were tragically hit by huge earthquakes that flattens everything for hundreds of miles.
Former Sec of Defense Cohen seemed to let on that such weapons are in the works:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/291204earthquakeweapons.htm
Mr Nelson Paging Mr Nelson
Please pick up the white ball lightning phone Mr Nelson
Earthquakes and lightning? Next come the Tripods. Run....