Strange 'Earthquake Lights' Accompanied Mexico's 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake

Although the massive magnitude 2 earthquake hit Mexico earlier this week was enough, the earthquake also produced attractive side effects: the mystical light of the sky

Social media has lots of videos and the flash is illuminating the night sky above Mexico City, but the flash is not from the thunder above the clouds, not even from the lights of the airplane.

Instead, the flash is considered to be caused by the earthquake itself. Specifically, the light comes from a particular type of rock

According to research published in 2014, these lights may take various forms such as blue flames, light balls, flashes like lightning bolts.

"In some rocks this accumulation of stress will destroy the negatively charged pairs of oxygen on the ground and flow through the cracks of the rock to the surface," Georgian professor Leila Ertolahti I am talking. At Farleigh Dickinson University, to Gizmodo

"If there are sufficient atoms, they can ionize air pockets in the air and form plasma or charged gas to irradiate."

It is as interesting as the lights (and how they are formed) that the earthquakes that they had previously generated are the strongest earthquakes in Mexico in the past 100 years and the second environment following the Hurricane Irma this week It was a disaster.

Earthquakes may occur at places more than 966 km (600 miles) from the epicenter, and the number of reported victims is increasing.

A 58 - year - old bar manager, Alberto Briseño, said, "If you are an adult and you are living an adult life in this town, you will remember the 1985 earthquake. Said. At Condesa of the New York Times

On September 7, 2017, an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurred in the southern part of Mexico, several dozen people died and several hundred people were injured. The earthquake was very common in this area, but this powerful event was not a smooth earthquake. As a new research by Nature Geoscience reveals, a part of the structural plate about 37 miles thick that caused the earthquake was completely divided. This incident occurred within tens of seconds and occurred simultaneously with the release of a large amount of energy. This huge fragmentation incident has been observed in several parts of the world so far and these grand earthquakes all have one thing in common. This information gap is important as many people from the western coast of the Americas to the east coast of Japan may be threatened by these mysterious earthquakes.

Then there is an earthquake. An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 occurred in southern Mexico on Monday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred in this area last Friday. Although there was no death from the earthquake, 13 people were killed in a crash accident by a helicopter after the investigation was broken. On Monday morning, the whole sea shook with a magnitude 5.3 earthquake. Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, says: But she pointed out that it is too early to combine the points between all the activities we saw during the past few months and tells you how much the event will affect other events It is difficult.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred near Puebla city. Coincidentally, this is the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that robbed about 10,000 people. The earthquake occurred at 11:00 am local time in the early warning campaign for the nationwide earthquake earthquake, 360 people died two hours before the Puebla earthquake, more than 6,000 people were injured. Hurricane Harvey was furious in the southeastern part of Texas after the reorganization in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in devastating floods and damage of billions of dollars. It has become the first major hurricane that landed in the United States since 2005 Hurricane Wilma. The total damage caused by hurricanes is estimated at $ 198 billion, which is the biggest natural disaster in the history of the United States. In addition, the maximum precipitation is 60.58 inches (1538.7 mm), and Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone in the history of the United States.