Behind the powerful earthquake that shook Fukushima, in Japan, of 7.3 degrees of intensity, which has forced the Japanese authorities to activate the tsunami warningblue lights were once more seen in the sky during the ground motion.
As seen in videos from different sources, during the powerful earthquake in Japan, blue flashes are seen in the sky, a phenomenon that has been documented by science and that always occurs in the face of high-intensity ground movements.
This phenomenon is known as “earthquake lights”, which had recently been documented in a earthquake in mexico in September.
Those blue lights in the sky during an earthquake are caused by the movement and displacement of the plates near the Earth’s geological faults, which generate an electrical charge that is released and rises towards the sky during the tremor.
Researchers from Rutgers University, in the United States, revealed that this phenomenon has been known since the 1600s in earthquakes.
These “earthquake lights” can appear before, during and following the ground movement, according to anecdotes and records from previous years.
Here are the images that the NHK news channel from Japan reported during the Fukushima earthquake and that show the blue lights in the sky.
Seismic intensity 6 upper in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectureshttps://t.co/CO3JmvpVcx#nhk_video pic.twitter.com/JqHSHpWg7C
— NHK News (@nhk_news) March 16, 2022
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