A stunning video of spider-web lightning striking a volcano in Guatemala in what almost appears to be a spectacular firework display has gone viral online. The impressive display of lightning struck ...

On April 22 at 6:04 p.m. the Calbuco volcano in Chile began erupting for the first time since 1972. The volcano spewed ash and pumice for at least 90 minutes as lava flowed from the main vent. Another ...

When the fictional Dante’s Peak erupted in 1997, the residents of the titular town had enough to deal with in the form of lava, pyroclasts, and waves of ash without having to worry about volcanic ...

Volcanic lightning is lightning that forms in ash clouds during volcanic eruptions, caused by static electricity from ...

Volcanic lightning is a striking and multifaceted phenomenon that occurs during explosive eruptions, when vigorous interactions between fragmented ash particles, volcanic gases and environmental ...

When Alaska's Redoubt Volcano rumbled to life three years ago, researchers rushed to the scene to deploy radio sensors to catalog and map lightning within the plume. The readings, the team now reports ...

Hundreds of people in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province were evacuated Wednesday after multiple eruptions of the Ruang volcano. Most of the island's 800 residents were evacuated to nearby ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia ...

An eruption on the small, uninhabited South Pacific island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai as seen by NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) on January 15, 2022.

A photo of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption taken on December 24, 2021, before the biggest eruption on January 15, 2022. Tsunamis caused by the eruption killed at six people in Tonga ...

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 ...