Several clusters of light that may appear before, during or after the earthquake are among the suspicious images that arouse curiosity about this disaster. These light groups were created during the earthquakes that took place in different parts of the world and in our country. with different videos and images is included.

These flares, which also appeared in the magnitude 7.7 Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquake on Feb. 6, How could happen?

Earthquake lights; It can be seen in the form of “flickering flames”, “glowing orbs”, “lightning”.

In addition to these “meteorite sight” or “volcanic flames come out of cracks” can also be described as

Researchers thought that these flashes of light could be caused by different aircraft or that they were purely coincidental phenomena; until strange flares of light appeared in Italy.

After these orbs, seen in April 2009, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred, researchers These lights may be related to the earthquake. started working on it.

NASA researcher Friedemann Freund states that these phenomena can now be more easily detected by the many security cameras that work day and night. For example, it was seen in Pisco, Peru, in 2007. During an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0images of earthquake lights were captured.

Outside of Italy’s L’Aquila region, residents of San Francisco were also just ahead of the quake. rainbow-like He had witnessed a flash of light. Canadians were on a river bank in 1988. a purplish glowing orb They saw it and 11 days later an earthquake occurred.

Jim Conacher also observed yellow and luminous orbs on a mountain in Canada’s Tagish Lake and was able to photograph this moment as evidence of these rays of light.

Again, after these lights were captured by Conacher, an earthquake occurred in the region a few hours later.

Of these flares of light seen in different regions, Freund said that these lights “in many different colors and shapes“He says he can improve.

These light clusters were captured during a magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Mexico.

After this earthquake, which hit Mexico strongly and was felt as far as Mexico City, strange green and blue colored lights attracted attention.

These bursts of light have been captured during some earthquakes in Turkey and in several countries around the world. One of these was the Düzce earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale.

This earthquake that happened in Düzce also hit Zonguldak and light clusters were also recorded in Zonguldak.

While the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that occurred on February 6 at 04:17 was recorded in Gaziantep, the lights in question were seen again.

According to Freund, earthquake lights are “electric discharges” that emanate from the ground and can rise up to 200 meters in the air.

In addition to Canada, Italy, San Francisco, Mexico and Turkey, these earthquake lights were most common in France, Greece, Germany, China and parts of South America. When these lights the day and time before the earthquake sometimes during the earthquake Examples have also been seen after the earthquake.

So how do these orbs come about?

According to one phenomenon, when igneous or metamorphic rocks are under stress, their molecular bonds are broken and ionized oxygen remains free. In this direction, some ions form charged layers on the surface itself or below the surface. electric fields can make. The strongest of these areas cause short flashes of light.

Another phenomenon that occurs in less than a second is “damage to mineral structures”.

These flaws semiconductors explode like a burst of light Freund states that charged particles “can cross the Earth’s surface and discharge into the air as an electrical discharge”.

There are opinions that “triboluminescence,” which is revealed by examining the particles in lab experiments, can also cause earthquake lights.

Triboluminescences; crushing, rubbing, scratching or breaking chemical bonds can be revealed. Likewise, since quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust, earthquake lights can also appear when fractures interact, crushing the rocks.

Freund argues that these lights can be seen as a good warning system for an approaching earthquake, adding that these orbs are a questionable sign in earthquake prediction.

To ensure that these lights are seen as an accurate prediction of earthquakes, the researcher the emergence of more characteristic phenomena He advises us to consider the necessity of an earthquake, and yet these theories are fleeting, and when we see these lights, there will be an earthquake.

Looking at the well-known examples in history, a Chinese geologist in 1976, strange lights While expressing that he took precautions as soon as he saw it, and that the deadly Tangshan earthquake happened afterwards, a citizen of the 2009 Italy earthquake, whose details we have mentioned, said: flashes of light He stated that as soon as he saw him, he moved to a safer place with his family.

• Sources: New Scientist, CNET, National Geographic