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Earthquakes and Electric Storms

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

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Earthquakes and Electric Storms

Professor Hensingmuller, of Berlin, declares that earthquakes cause great electric storms, and says that the violent electrical storms which caused so much havoc in New York a few weeks ago were produced by the earthquake in Mexico. A tremendous amount of electricity, he declares, is generated, which has its effect upon the atmosphere and the clouds in the region where its force is principally felt, and that the effects of an earthquake in that way are likely to be felt as far as 2,500 miles away from the point of disturbance. In such a case, the electric storm, the result of the earthquake, may be more destructive than the earthquake itself.