Lightning is “frequently observed in the ... for having “relatively steep sides and are more cone-shaped than shield volcanoes.” This week, a volcano in Indonesia's North Maluku province ...

Now researchers in a new report have unveiled something else: the eruption set off more than 25,500 lightning events in just five minutes. Over the course of just six hours, the volcano triggered ...

Videos on social media showed bright purple flashes of lightning over the volcano during the eruption. Data from a ground-based global lightning detection network owned and operated by the Finnish ...

You can get in touch with Anders by emailing [email protected] A stunning video of spider-web lightning striking a volcano in Guatemala in what almost appears to be a spectacular firework ...

That storm now boasts the most lightning ever recorded on Earth. Hanging ominously above the Pacific Ocean was a volcanic cloud lit by concentric rings of lightning that flashed about 192,000 ...

Last year's colossal eruption of the Hunga undersea volcano near Tonga produced the most intense lightning storm ever recorded on Earth, scientists announced in a new study published this week.