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An interesting article on the disappearance of the lightning around
Lake Maracaibo,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...htning-el-nino





http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...htning-el-nino

Those damnable earthquakes again. No mention of the piezo-electric
effect , as such, and earthquake lightning in that piece.

"The last time the phenomenon vanished was in 1906 after a catastrophic
8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia unleashed a
tsunami. The lightning returned three weeks later."