7 thoughts on “Did rainbow clouds predict the earthquake?”
that was a circumhorizontal arc or better known as a fire rainbow. it happens when ice crystals allign a certain way in only a few places in the world (or something like that) and i doubt that it had anything to do with the earthquake.
Seems to me the animals are an unproven, though a possible predictor. The lake disappearing might be a major alarm bell (in my twisted mind), though lakes disappear all the time in the U.S. due to sinkholes and such. . . But a funny rainbow? I’m not convinced.
And South Georgia? We had a 4.2 that woke everyone up in Atlanta about two years ago, at 5 AM – you didn’t feel that one? We’re not too far from the New Madrid fault, the largest fault in the U.S., I think. The last time it went off, 18xx, it changed the course of the Mississippi river. And the Mississippi river flowed BACKWARDS for a while. . .
I see clouds like that quite a bit in Wisconsin (maybe not quite that vivid) during the warmer months. We call them sun dogs. I can’t really see where the clouds and an earthquake could have any corolation.
that was a circumhorizontal arc or better known as a fire rainbow. it happens when ice crystals allign a certain way in only a few places in the world (or something like that) and i doubt that it had anything to do with the earthquake.
Thanks for the info. Next time I see one of these things, I’m gonna do a lot more runnin’ and a lot less filmin’.
I always called that a sundog. I never felt an earthquake when I’ve seem them.
I have photos of those in South Georgia.
The earthquakes don’t read Bits and Pieces, apparently because we’ve not had one in my lifetime.
Seems to me the animals are an unproven, though a possible predictor. The lake disappearing might be a major alarm bell (in my twisted mind), though lakes disappear all the time in the U.S. due to sinkholes and such. . . But a funny rainbow? I’m not convinced.
And South Georgia? We had a 4.2 that woke everyone up in Atlanta about two years ago, at 5 AM – you didn’t feel that one? We’re not too far from the New Madrid fault, the largest fault in the U.S., I think. The last time it went off, 18xx, it changed the course of the Mississippi river. And the Mississippi river flowed BACKWARDS for a while. . .
Chris,
South. As in not north. As in below the Gnat Line.
You could have a 8.7 in Atlanta and us here in Hickory Head wouldn’t notice.
You have a shaker up there I feel down here and you are going to be in a world of hurt.
The Fall Line, by the way, seperates those folks in Georgia who live in an active ( more or less) reigion and those of us who do not.
I see clouds like that quite a bit in Wisconsin (maybe not quite that vivid) during the warmer months. We call them sun dogs. I can’t really see where the clouds and an earthquake could have any corolation.