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 ...

A PATIENT photographer has captured one of the true wonders of nature - a bolt of ultra-rare volcanic lightning. Martin Reitze snapped his startling image as plumes of volcanic ash escaped from ...

A photographer in Guatemala captured the stunning moment a bolt of lightning hit a volcano as it was erupting. Astrophotographer Sergio Montúfar told SWNS, a British news agency, that he hiked up ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

It may look like the special effects from a disaster movie, but the bolts of lightning photographed in the plume of the ash-spewing Icelandic volcano are real. Thing is, the process that creates ...

2. Then, to get bolts of lightning, the charged particles need to separate into different regions of a volcano's ash plume. In the chaotic plume, this happens naturally as differently sized ash ...

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.