>One likely possibility is that power lines are shorting because they've become "guitar strings" and are touching each other while vibrating from the quake.
From the article, emphasis mine:
>The intriguing bursts of light were captured on CCTV at a home in Agadir approximately three minutes before the disaster.
I was wondering how well synchronized the camera clock is with the clock used to establish event timing in picking the earthquake arrivals.
There are several seconds between my smart watch time and the network time displayed on my workstation. There are several minutes between those two times which I consider accurate and the time displayed on the battery powered clock on the wall. There are hours between those times and the time displayed on my coffee-maker.
Are you suggesting that the lights recorded in the video are actually happening during the earthquake? Wouldn't it be easy to tell when the earthquake occured due to camera shaking?
The link in this comment[0] shows the camera shaking well before the lights are flashing. Also, you can see the arcs of electricity in the flashes. Lightning is purple not bluish. Human made electrical systems make the bluish color. The flashes do not start until ~20s into the 39s video. How are we even coming close to these being "before" the earthquake?
From the article, emphasis mine:
>The intriguing bursts of light were captured on CCTV at a home in Agadir approximately three minutes before the disaster.