Hi Dennis, and anyone else who's interested.

So far I have been able to find 343 references to earthquakes and lightning together on the internet. Many of them are very obscure. From Saint Wigand, who when beheaded, caused earthquakes and lightning, Epicurus, who lived to show that the gods don't have much effect on our lives to CCR's Bad Moon Rising.

One of the more interesting sites I have found so far is a little too technical for me. It certainly does deal with seismic activity. Seems to be a little off mainstream from what I can understand, and shows a relationship to electrical activity.

One very secific note is about animals and anomolous behaviour related to seismic activity. This is something that I have thought about. At first, I thought the ants were being effected by vibrations in the ground. Ants seem to be one of the more dependable precursors here in Taiwan. At the factory where I work, we have machines and compressors running all the time. Big trucks pass the building all the time. How would the ants possibly determine what is seismic and what is man made vibrations. It just doesn't seem to be possible. The actual statement from the "very technical web page" states that "The same pulsed field surprised eels and hamsters, suggesting
seismic anomalous animal behavior as electro-physiological responses to the
stimuli of electric pulses" I'll buy that until something better comes along.

If you are interested in the page, it can be located at http://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/bibliography/elves.bib

To find the specific quote I pasted, use the Find in page function on your browser and type in earthquake.

If you read this page and can shed some light on it's relevance/meaning, please post it!

• very technical page