Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.

Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.

(CNN) — Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.

Mysterious flashes of lightning sometimes herald earthquakes, and now scientists may have discovered why: Shifting grains surrounding faults in the Earth may generate an electric charge. This ...

Earthquake lights in history Freund and colleagues studied 65 accounts of such lights reaching as far back as 1600, publishing their findings in Seismological Research Letters in 2014.

Extraordinary earthquake lights explained -- they're not UFOs The rare and colorful lights sometimes seen before major earthquakes could come from electric charges in certain types of rock.

Earthquake lights is the name given to a range of weather phenomena that have been reported in association with earthquakes, including sheet lightning, balls of light, streamers, and steady glow ...

Earthquake lights over Tagish Lake in the Yukon-Alaska border region. The photograph was probably taken in July 1972 or 1973 (exact date unknown). The estimated diameter of the balls is about 1 m ...

Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.