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Earthquake Light
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A rare, unexplained luminous phenomenon, reported as flashes, glows or streamers of light in the sky, that some witnesses describe seeing shortly before or during an earthquake. Documented sporadically for centuries and captured on video during a number of modern earthquakes, earthquake lights remain scientifically contested, with proposed explanations including the generation of electric charge as stressed rock deep underground fractures.
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Earthquake lights are luminous phenomena reported in the sky during or immediately before earthquake shaking, thought to arise from stress-induced electrical effects in rock; the phenomenon is defined by, and occurs during, the earthquake itself.
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