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Tiny Electric Signals Could Predict Earthquakes or Bridge Failures
June 11, 2012 3:00 PM
By Sarah Fecht; Popular Mechanics
In the early hours of January 17, 1995, fishermen were already hard at work in Japan's Osaka Bay when they noticed a strange orange light shoot across the distant shore. They watched as the luminous object, 100 meters tall, swept left-to-right across the ground until it crashed into a nearby mountain range. Then lightning struck from the sky. A few seconds later, the water beneath the boats began sloshing?a magnitude 6.8 earthquake had just struck...