Awesome videos show terrified people screaming in the streets and moving in a cable car in Mexico during a deadly 7.0-magnitude earthquake, with the sky lit up in blue in a natural disaster that locals compared to the Apocalypse .
Videos of the Tuesday night earthquake show something strange and terrifying natural light show, which many people shared on Twitter with the tag Apocalypse, the Spanish of the biblical term that denotes the end of the world.
Many were captured in Mexico City, many of whom lost power during the quake that affected more than 200 miles away on Acapulco Beach.
A clip even shows people trapped in a cable car spinning around as the sky repeatedly lights up around them.
Another clip seen over a million times it shows people hugging and shouting in the street, while a man struggles to stay upright even as he adopts a broad posture. Car alarms go off repeatedly, which increases the feeling of doom.
A video also showed the cloudy night sky lit by lightning as water came out of a pool on the city hill that made Hollywood stars famous in the 1950s.
Residents also showed clips of shattered ornaments inside the houses shaken by the earthquake, along with broken bottles in a supermarket.
Other images show a seven-story building labeled as Mexico City that clearly swayed during the quake, which killed at least one person and damaged buildings, but did not appear to cause widespread destruction, authorities said in a statement. first reports.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) initially measured it at a magnitude of 7.4, but later changed it to 7.0.
The quake was relatively shallow, just 12 miles below the surface, which would have amplified the shaking effect, the USGS said.
The strange lights reported during earthquakes around the world are often imbued with religious significance by those who witness them. There is little scientific consensus on what causes luminosity, or even whether it is a real phenomenon.
Theories of what researchers call earthquake lights (EQL) include friction between moving rocks that create electrical activity. Some people reported similar lights during a destructive earthquake in Mexico in 2017.
Skeptics say witnesses can simply see a more mundane lightning strike.
“Geophysicists differ in the extent to which they believe that individual reports of unusual lighting near the time and epicenter of an earthquake actually represent EQL,” the USGS says on its website.
“Some doubt that any of the reports constitute solid evidence,” the USGS said.
With publishing cables