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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Bolts of volcanic lightning have been captured coming out of Guatemala's Fuego volcano in extremely rare footage.

Now, researchers report observations of the same Hunga eruption in Tonga producing a lofty volcanic thunderstorm that produced the most intense lightning ever recorded. At its peak, the sprawling ...

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 ...

(USGS) New research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on ...

An analysis of volcanic rocks has revealed large quantities of nitrogen compounds that were almost certainly formed by volcanic lightning. This process could have provided the nitrogen required ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A volcanic eruption in January of 2022 may have been the trigger for the most violent ...