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  2. Distribution of lightning - Wikipedia

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    The place where lightning occurs most often is above the Catatumbo river, which feeds Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, where the so-called Catatumbo lightning flashes several times per minute, with lightning happening up to 300 nights a year. This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250 ...

  3. Lightning injury - Wikipedia

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    It is estimated that lightning injuries occur 240,000 times a year with 24,000 deaths. [1] Among pregnant women who are hit by lightning, the death of the fetus occurs in about half. [1] In the United States about 1 in 10,000 people are hit by lightning during their lifetime. [1] Males are affected four times more often than females. [1]

  4. Lightning strike - Wikipedia

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    According to the CDC there are about 6,000 lightning strikes per minute, or more than 8 million strikes every day. [11] As of 2008 there were about 240,000 "lightning strikes incidents" around the world each year. [12] According to National Geographic in 2009, about 2,000 people were killed annually worldwide by lightning. [13]

  5. Recent lightning deaths underscore how dangerous ... - AOL

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    However, despite the recent increase, the country still remains far from the number of annual lightning deaths seen in decades past. From 1991 to 2001, the U. Recent lightning deaths underscore ...

  6. 2023 had more lightning but fewer fatalities in US - AOL

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    The National Lightning Safety Council (NLSC) announced this week that 13 people were killed by lightning in 2023, the second-lowest number since 2001 and well under the 10-year average of 22. The ...

  7. Rash of lightning strike deaths increases US yearly toll to 6

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    On average, 11 Americans are killed by lightning each year by July 12. Thus far, just six have died, whi Rash of lightning strike deaths increases US yearly toll to 6

  8. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Note: Measuring the number of deaths caused by a heat wave requires complicated statistical analysis, since heat waves tend to cause large numbers of deaths among people weakened by other conditions. As a result, the number of deaths is only known with any accuracy for heat waves in the modern era in countries with developed healthcare systems.

  9. Shocker: 194M bolts of lightning detected in the US last year

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    Experts at lightning research firm Vaisala, based in Finland, reported 194 million cloud-to-ground and in-cloud lightning events occurred in the continental Shocker: 194M bolts of lightning ...