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From original video taken 1990-2003 | Audio in Japanese
Laboratory experiments convinced Professor Ikeya that unusual clouds and lights seen before earthquakes were electro-atmospheric phenomena generated by intense electric fields at night, and having their source in rock beginning to fracture under enormous pressures
Unusual clouds & fair weather fogs
These have been reported before earthquakes. Professor Ikeya reproduced them in laboratory electric field experiments
Candle flames
Candle flames bending downwards, flickering in still conditions, or snuffing out, have been reported before earthquakes
Below. Top left: Sudden Earthquake Light widely viewed over Kobe, in the western sky, in winter just before the 5.47am earthquake; 3 photos taken at night during the Matsushiro earthquake swarm in 1967. Bottom: An elongated moon, taken at 8pm a day before the Kobe Earthquake. All can be explained as EM events
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Professor Ikeya did not conduct any earthquake light experiments |