Originally posted by skyshowmaybe someone else recongnizes it and knows the name of the cloud formation?

You would be looking for the term "Iridescent" cloud however in this case it is also an "Earthquake" cloud...
Here is an "Iridescent" cloud
image source: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Earth/Clouds/Ed-Kreminski1.jpg
Here is the work on "Earthquake" clouds from Z. Shou...
Bam Earthquake Prediction & Space Technology - PDF
Now while I know HAARP CAN make earthquakes... they did not do this one...
But China building their biggest underground nuclear weapons facility on a know fault line that has a history of BIG quakes... seems kinda stupid to
me...