The GLM instrument saw the most lightning when the upper umbrella cloud began to move away from the volcano and revealed its smoking vent. Both the eruption and lightning then calmed down slightly ...

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 ...

How did it happen? Lightning illuminates the sky over Nebraska's Platte River. The 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption created the most intense lightning event in the scientific record, generating 2,600 ...

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 ...

The eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Volcano on January 15, 2022, lasted at least 11 hours and produced a record-breaking amount of lightning. The information gathered about the eruption can be used to ...

Using this network and satellite imagery, Van Eaton and her team showed that lightning rates tend to peak at certain times during an eruption, offering clues to how a volcano is behaving even ...

The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption continues to break records. Its latest? The highest altitudes that lightning has ever been known to start. The plume from the eruption produced lightning flashes ...

The eruption of the underwater Hunga volcano in the southern Pacific Ocean produced the most intense lightning storm ever recorded. "This eruption triggered a supercharged thunderstorm ...

Although it may seem like an exaggerated visual effect, lightning during a volcanic eruption is a real and documented phenomenon. It forms when ash particles, rock fragments, and g ...

The country's disaster management agency posted dramatic video online of dozens of lightning ... 17 eruption, authorities warned that a subsequent eruption might collapse part of the volcano ...

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 ...

"We call it volcanic lightning. It's due to charges getting set up by the the ash particles scraping up next to each other.” More information on how residents can prepare for an eruption is ...