• @agent_flounder
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    10 months ago

    It’s not, according to the article. It happened 3 minutes before the quake in this case

    And it’s commonly across the world before earthquakes.

    Analysing 65 earthquake light incidents for patterns in a 2014 study, adjunct physics professor and and NASA researcher Friedemann Freund described the phenomenon “as if you switched on a battery in the Earth’s crust”.

    Kind of fascinating.