clipped from www.1011now.com

Streaks of light shooting across the night sky can many times be explained as meteors. But reports of a very large one spotted in southeast Nebraska last week have left some questioning whether it could be related to the 3.5 magnitude earthquake felt just a few seconds before.

If you're in a very dark location, away from big cities or other light sources, you can see about seven meteors per hour, much more than you might think. But not all of them are very bright, which is why University of Nebraska State Museum Planetarium Coordinator Jack Dunn says the large meteor spotted nearby last week was probably a fireball, and as far as being related to the earthquake, just a coincidence.