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Earthquake Lightning

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IN some parts of the world, earthquakes are often accompanied by ball lightning, stroke lightning and sheet lightning1. The only causal connexion that seems possible is that the seismic strains of the earthquake somehow cause an electric field in the air, which in turn produces ball lightning2 and stroke and sheet lightning. What is the mechanism of this "seismoelectric effect" ?

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FINKELSTEIN, D., POWELL, J. Earthquake Lightning. Nature 228, 759–760 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228759a0

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