Recently, some netizens reported that the night sky in Menyuan, Qinghai Province suddenly lit up like daylight (October 8), as if a UFO had descended, which aroused the attention of netizens. According to the screenshots posted by local netizens, around 2:40 in the morning in Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, the originally dark sky was suddenly illuminated by a dazzling light, and for a while the entire sky was as bright as day.
Regarding this situation, some netizens said that it might be a gigabit earthquake. Is this really the case? Some netizens said that when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Menyuan County on January 8, 2022, the sky suddenly became as bright as day in the early morning.
In this regard, the local seismological bureau stated that there will indeed be some abnormal phenomena before the earthquake, such as cocks crowing and dogs barking, but there is no scientific basis for the speculation that the sky will brighten before the earthquake. On the 8th, no strong earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or above occurred in Qinghai Province.
Can earthquake light predict earthquakes? Although the Tangshan Earthquake created a foreseeable miracle, in the 1975 Haicheng Earthquake, the earthquake light lasted for a long time and illuminated the sky and the earth for almost the entire earthquake period. After exploring the laws of seismic light, scientists unfortunately found that the appearance of seismic light was irregular. Therefore, they also determined that seismic light cannot be used systematically as a factor to predict the occurrence of earthquakes.