[NewCandle] Sichuan earthquake lights explained

[Keith Nagel]

Yes, it does look like a rainbow like reflection. That's something
that the discharge hypothesis can't explain; what's causing
the colors? I've worked with 1/2 MV+ DC generators in humid
conditions and typically the discharges are purplish/white
air glows. I've never seen a rainbow like effect in air as
we are seeing here.

Looking around a bit, there is other photgraphic evidence claiming
to show earthquake lights. Here are some links.

http://inamidst.com/lights/earthquake

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/faq.php?categoryID=8&faqID=103

The bluish white color in these pics matches my experience with air glow
from
the HV generators, but frankly when I saw the footage all I
could think of was that a power line was down somewhere in
the field and the discharging was the source of the flashes...
But apparently enought obs. have been collected to rule
out that explaination?

The USGS link mentions coronal or point discharges as part
of the phenomena, here's the ref.

   St-Laurent, France, The Saguenay, Quebec, Earthquake Lights
   of November 1988 - January 1989. Seismological Research
   Letters, 71, no. 2, p. 160-174, 2000.

Those observations might shed some ( incandescent flaming ) light on this
new footage.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com
[mailto:newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com]On Behalf Of Horace Heffner
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 3:35 AM
To: New energy for the new world.
Subject: Re: [NewCandle] Sichuan earthquake lights explained



On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Keith Nagel wrote:

> Hi Horace,
>
> If you look at the very end of the clip ( about 3:10 to the end )
> the upper right hand corner of the screen lightens noticably. The
> quake was recorded at ~2:30PM China Standard Time. So this phenomena
> was recorded at about 2PM. The sun looks high in the sky, and to
> the right of the frame. Does the direction of the color gradient
> match that sun position?

You are right, the color gradient does not support the premise that
colors are due to a sun dog effect from a sun below the horizon.
Based on the tree shadows on the rooftops late in the film it appears
the sun is high overhead and to the back and possibly very slightly
to the left of the camera position.  I somehow got the impression the
film was taken in early morning, but see it clearly was not.  The
color gradient looks right for a rainbow reflection however. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow

The colors look like they may be from a secondary reflection, or fire
rainbow, and the sun angle might be right for that.   I see things
like that in Alaska on occasion, possibly because we have ice in
cirrus clouds often and usually have a low sun angle.   The brightest
are sun dog effects, but we have double rainbows fairly often, which
are very intense.

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/





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