WTF? "Tsunami lit up the heavens "

Japan’s recent monster earthquake did more than jolt the island nation and send a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of kilometers overhead, that tsunami also lit up the atmosphere in celestial glowing ripples.

In the first picture of its kind, scientists photographed these “airglow” ripples as they washed over Hawaii hours after the quake. The report will appear in an upcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

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Specifically, it was in the ionosphere. So now we have the ionosphere heating up dramatically in the few days proceeding the quake AND "tsunami waves" at the time of the event.

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