Earthquake Lights: The Glow in the Sky That Science Refused to Believe
On the evening of November 12, 1988, people living along the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City looked up and saw a bright globe of pink-purple light crossing the sky. It was low, and it was silent. It did not flash and disappear the way lightning does. Witnesses described a steady, deliberate drift toward the north-northeast, following the line of the river, lasting two or three full minutes before the light simply went out.
Thirteen days later, at 6:46 on the evening of November 25, a magnitude-5.9 earthquake struck the Saguenay region roughly 150 kilometres to the north. It was the strongest tremor eastern Canada had felt in decades and was registered across much of the continent. A magnitude-4.8 foreshock had arrived two days earlier, in the small hours of November 23. Between November 1988 and the end of January 1989 the region produced sixty-seven separate earthquakes.
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