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An eerie video has captured the moment mysterious "blue lights" were seen flashing in the sky just moments before a horror earthquake killed thousands of people in Morocco.
The bursts of light were captured on a home security camera in Agadir approximately three minutes before a major 7.2-magnitude earthquake stuck the area.
The shaking lasted several seconds โ with a 4.9-magnitude aftershock recorded just 19 minutes later.
READ MORE: Morocco earthquake death toll rises as harrowing images show full extent of destruction
People were sent fleeing in terror from buildings and those who could not escape were killed or injured as their homes collapsed.
More than 2,900 people have been killed and 2,059 injured after the monster tremor struck just after 11pm local time on September 8 โ making it one of the deadliest disasters the country has seen for over 120 years.
The 27-second clip, which has gained more than 6.2million views on X (Twitter), shows one flash in the top left corner followed by a another a few seconds later.
The caption read: "One of the brothers from brotherly Morocco sent me this strange clip from a surveillance camera of his house in the city of Agadir at the moment the earthquake occurred…
"Mysterious blue flashes of light appeared on the horizon and no one knew what they were.
"Knowing that these same lights appeared at the moment of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria 7 months ago. Does anyone have an explanation?"
Reports say a similar phenomenon was observed before the earthquake in Turkey earlier this year, which claimed the lives of 45,000 people.
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Lights have also been observed in China in 2008, Italy in 2009, and Mexico in 2017. However, these "lights" have been documented in the sky as far back as the 1965 during a Japanese earthquake, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The cause of the phenomenon largely remains a mystery โ but some scientists suggest this may be the release of energy as a result of the movement of lithospheric plates.
National Geographic reported a 2014 study that analysed 65 earthquake light incidents for patterns. Physics professor and NASA researcher Friedemann Freund described the phenomenon "as if you switched on a battery in the Earth's crust".
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