Incredible footage filmed during the New Zealand earthquake shows the night sky lighting up with bright colors. Quick-thinking New Zealanders managed to film the scene in Wellington while the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch. The phenomenon has been spotted during earthquakes for thousands of years – but scientists haven’t come to a consensus about why it happens. In a paper published in science journal Seismological Research Letters, researchers stated that lights have been spotted weeks before an earthquake.
Mysterious green and blue flashes appeared as New Zealand earthquake struck
