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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by xupybd on Sunday November 13, 2016 @02:42PM (#12945207)
Anyone know what the lights were about? http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/strange-lights-during-earthq... or is it a hoax.

I'm in Palmerston North a long way away, but that was the biggest quake I've felt.

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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by NickNameNick on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:32PM (#12946665)
My curtain fell down, and I saw some impressive green flashes across wellington harbour, near Seaview.

General consensus is something to do with the power grid.

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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by rmtew on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:59PM (#12945911)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by lightlyused on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:55PM (#12946223)
link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIQaJg3lVM
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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by Reason077 on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:26PM (#12946649)
News report and another video:

http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/86420960/earthquake-strange-gl...

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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by JshWright on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:16PM (#12946810)
Yeah, that looks like transformers popping (falling off poles, etc).
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Re:New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor by flukus on Monday November 14, 2016 @02:00AM (#12948008)
Some of the videos are showing these lights out over the ocean.
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