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Local anomalies. Mexico

ID #1631286431
Added Fri, 10/09/2021
Author July N.
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Incident date: 
09.09.2021
Location: 
Мехико и Акапулько
Mexico

What was it: ordinary thunderstorms or an anomaly associated with an earthquake? Or maybe "signs of the apocalypse", as they hurried to write in social networks? A rare natural phenomenon was observed in Mexico City and Acapulco on the night of Thursday, September 9. At the very moment when a strong earthquake shook Mexico, the sky lit up with strange flashes. Twitter users have published several dozen videos, united by the common name "Apocalypse". In social networks, there was excitement and questions about whether the end of the world had come. The discussion continues on Friday, September 10. 

Mexican Elian Huesca posted a video with a captured natural phenomenon on the web.

"This is what an earthquake looks like in the sky from the height of the 11th floor," he wrote on Twitter. Throughout the video, he can be heard saying " wow " several times.

The epicenter of the earthquake with a strength of 7 points on the Richter scale was located at a distance of 17 km northeast of the resort of Acapulco. The elements claimed the life of one person. And although many buildings were fairly shaking, the authorities reported that no serious damage was caused to the buildings. In the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, many residents ran out into the streets with the beginning of the tremors. No casualties or significant damage were reported.

However, in addition to the earthquake, people are also discussing a strange phenomenon in the sky. The photos published on the network show lightning and flashes in the sky over Acapulco, which appeared shortly after the earthquake began. The dark hills behind the bay were illuminated by flashes, and the bright light fell on the buildings along the coastline. In the videos taken by eyewitnesses, frightened residents of Mexico City are standing on the street away from their homes, and the sky above them turns blue, then pink, then white.

The most frightening video can be called the one where people are captured on a funicular, which is terribly swaying from side to side during an earthquake - while the sky is illuminated by bright flashes.

Reports of mysterious flashes during an earthquake are not new in principle. They have arrived before from different countries of the world.

Many eyewitnesses of this natural phenomenon did not fail to connect it "with God's punishment". Scientists have not come to a consensus on the causes of the flashes. Moreover, they doubt the very nature of this phenomenon - perhaps it is not natural, but artificial.


According to one hypothesis, the flashes are the so - called EQL, or "earthquake lights", generated by friction between moving rocks of rocks and sparks knocked out at the same time. Some geologists tend to explain the flashes formed by short circuits and explosions of transformers during aftershocks and their reflection on the clouds. Skeptics believe that these are ordinary thunderbolts, to which frightened people attach some supernatural meaning. Anyway, users of social networks told about a similar phenomenon during the devastating earthquake in Mexico in 2017. 

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The storm

The storm is an atmospheric phenomenon in which the inside of clouds or between the cloud and the earth's surface arise electrical discharges - lightning accompanied by thunder. It is quite a common natural phenomenon in certain situations could be considered something abnormal, such as when it appears under unusual conditions or unfamiliar to the eyewitness. A vivid example is the so-called "snow storm" (or "snow storm"), i.e. thunderstorm, which is when rain falls heavy snow, freezing rain or ice pellets.

Short circuit

Suddenly you hear a loud Bang and bright Spica. After that may turn off the light in the apartment, as well as to spread the fire.

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Events

Rocket launches (from space.skyrocket.de)

  • Site: Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan (China) Vehicle: CZ-3B/G2(2) Payload: ZX 9B (ChinaSat 9B)
  • Site: Plesetsk (NIIP-53, GIK-1, GNIIP) (USSR / Russia) Vehicle: Soyuz-2-1v Payload: Kosmos 2551 (EMKA #2 ?)

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