The concept of ley alignment is as old as the enigmatic lines etched onto the plains of Nazca. with a purpose equally as opaque. In New Mexico, stright tracks can still be seen from the air connecting Chaco Canyon to now derelict native sites; equally perplexing are the 'Roman roads' that to this day can be walked from one corner of Britain to the other. And yet even the Romans claimed they were not the builders of such 'roads' but merely improved on them. But there are other alignments in the landscape that are truly mysterious: because they are invisible.

In the 1920s, while photographing landmarks in Herefordshire, Alfred Watkins noticed how ancient sites, churches (built over such sites), sacred mounds, old pilgrim routes and standing stones were aligned in perfect straight lines. He called them ley lines.

In essence, Watkins re-discovered old esoteric knowledge which had maintained that temples and oracles all across the Earth were not placed haphazardly but according to certain– and since forgotten– geodetic laws.

Large "telluric currents" have been found circulating through Earth's crust because our magnetic field induces current flow in conductive strata.....................

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So, earthquakes can be considered a form of underground lightning. If there is a break in the strata, permitting magma to reach the surface, the arc discharge might connect to the outside and a lightning bolt will leap from the cone of a volcano.

If earthquakes are underground lightning bolts, then perhaps seismic waves are the thunderclaps.

In that case, it seems likely that the majority of energy release during an earthquake is not from the fracturing and movement of rock strata, but is the result of electrical energy detonating within the matrix.