Way Back When: Odd Occurrences Before the Quake

A Sign from Above?

Three days before the earth shuddered violently on June 29, 1925, there was an odd apparition in the early morning sky here. Was it a sign of things to come?

“Yesterday morning … the heavens over the city were sprayed with streamers of lights believed by many to be the aurora borealis or northern lights … The phenomenon is said to have been visible for more than 20 minutes before beginning shortly after 5:00.

“Local scientists explained the display with the statement that a sandstorm passing over the city simultaneous with the rising of the first sun rays over the mountains produced an effect that has not been witnessed here for several years.” – Santa Barbara Morning Press, June 27, 1925

I’ll be speaking about the earthquake at the SB Historical Museum on June 18, the SB Genealogy Society meeting on June 21, and the SB Architecture Foundation on June 26.

More info about other quake-related events here: eq25.org