As lava spewed and plumes of ash rose more than a mile above Japan’s Sakurajima volcano, spectators in nearby villages watched in awe when a lightning ... prompts the bolt of energy — a ...

"It is an unusually strong and rare volcanic lightning bolt generated by the eruption of the volcano. "It was a scary moment, unexpectedly the whole landscape was bright and when the lightning ...

Lightning bolt strikes erupting volcano (Picture: Youtube) Volcán de Fuego is an active volcano that burps a lot (Picture: Getty) A lightning storm can happen around a volcano when ash particles ...

At 2:05 in the video, you can see a lightning bolt zig-zagging across the eruption’s ashy mushroom cloud. What’s going on here? Believe it or not, some volcano-generated plumes are capable ...

At least 2,600 lightning bolts each minute were detected during peak activity, shattering rates from any other weather system, storm or volcanic eruption recorded in Earth’s history. Using the ...

This is the extraordinary moment a volcano erupts, shooting luminous hot lava from the surface as a lightning bolt strikes the centre of the mountain. Photographer Martin Reitze, 55, captured ...

It comes as no shock that a potentially new type of volcanic lightning had long eluded scientists: The bolts can be as short as about 3 feet (1 meter) long and last just a few milliseconds.

A DRAMATIC photo has captured the moment a lightning bolt struck an erupting volcano. Photographer Sergio Montúfar took the snap as volcanic ash spewed from the top of Volcán de Pacaya ...

Lightning bolts that flash and clash high above erupting volcanoes can forge flying ash into glass, new research finds. The mechanism could explain the origins of odd microscopic glass beads found ...

A DRAMATIC photo has captured the moment a lightning bolt struck an erupting volcano. Photographer Sergio Montúfar took the snap as volcanic ash spewed from the top of Volcán de Pacaya ...