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Measurements of resistivities of quartz-bearing rocks in the vicinity of Californian faults suggest that piezoelectric fields due to low-frequency seismic waves are not responsible for earthquake lightning. Alternatives are briefly suggested.
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Finkelstein et al. (1973) studied this question.
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