Nearly 4,000 lightning strikes were recorded near the volcano during the eruption between 1 p.m. Tuesday and around 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist and specialist ...

"Taal volcano entered a period of intense unrest... that progressed into magmatic eruption at 02:49 to ... accompanied by thunder and flashes of lightning," the Philippine Institute of Volcanology ...

Lightning is a common phenomenon in volcanic eruption clouds, but we have certainly become more familiar with it thanks to the number of cameras capturing eruption pictures these days. In an ...

A lightning storm can happen around a volcano when ash particles from the plume collide, creating a massive static ...

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Caption More than 200,000 lightning flashes, shown as blue dots, occurred throughout the duration of the eruption at Tonga’s Hunga Volcano on January 15, 2022. New analyses of the eruption’s ...

Sometimes (like with Mount Ibu) we see lightning flash around volcanic clouds. When a column of hot ash is sent up from a volcano during an eruption, lots of tightly packed particles - the tiny ...