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.
12 posted on 12/18/2009 7:04:02 PM PST by Publius
(Do you want the people who run Amtrak to take out your appendix?)
