The Great Dog wrote:Electrical transformers exploding in the distance; or high voltage power lines disconnecting; or substation shorting-- this was a 7.5 earthquake, after all.TGD
Commenters were quick to dismiss the bizarre lights as the result of damage to electrical power transformers, however this isn’t the case
“The charges can combine and form a kind of plasma-like state, which can travel at very high velocities and burst out at the surface to make electric discharges in the air,” he said.
GaryN wrote:Recent large X9.3 solar flare and CME and large earthquake in Mexico, smaller quake in Japan. Not just a coincidence IMO.
"At least 32 people have died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the southern coast."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/08/americas/ ... index.html
China successfully launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors, which might help it establish a ground-space earthquake monitoring and forecasting network in the future.A Long March-2D rocket, which was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 15:51 (local times), carried the 730-kilogramme China Seismo- Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 500 Kms, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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It carries a high-precision magnetometer, a search-coil magnetometer and electric field probes to measure components and intensity of the magnetic and electric fields.
It is also equipped with a Langmuir probe, a plasma analyzer, a GNSS occultation receiver and a tri-band beacon to measure in-situ plasma and ionospheric profile as well, Zhou said. It also carries high-energy particle detectors, some of which are provided by Italian partners, and a magnetic field calibration device developed in Austria, according to Zhou. Research shows that just before a quake, tectonic forces acting on the Earth's crust emit electromagnetic waves and twist magnetic field lines. But such electromagnetic phenomena are relatively weak and need further study to be useful.
GaryN wrote:7.2 in Mexico, Earth facing CME was on the 12th, polar auroras 15th.
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2018
Too early yet for the Chinese satellite to have been observing I'd think.
The booms help broaden the distance between the sensors from two meters to over 10 meters, giving the small satellite platform more room for its payloads.
Four of the outstretched sensors are electric field probes, similar to antennas, and will detect changes in the electric field in three dimensions.
Zhangheng 1 will run in-orbit tests for about six months to assess its data quality before it is formally put into service. A second seismo-electromagnetic satellite is under evaluation, said Zhao Jian, the senior official with CNSA.
Zhangheng 1 will also provide data services for weather forecasts, aerospace and navigation communications, space physics and geophysics research.
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