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The top spot goes to an astonishing video that dispels the common myth that lightning never strikes the same place twice. In reality, the Willis Tower in Chicago is the most frequently struck U.S ...
Nature put on quite the show in Iceland this week.. A time-lapse video captured the northern lights above orange clouds of smoke billowing from an erupting volcano in the southwest part of the ...
Photos show Icelandic volcano erupting for 10th time in 3 years Lava spurts and flows after the eruption of a volcano in the Reykjanes Peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland, in this handout picture ...
Volcanic lightning is an electrical discharge caused by a volcanic eruption rather than from an ordinary thunderstorm. Volcanic lightning arises from colliding, fragmenting particles of volcanic ash (and sometimes ice ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which generate static electricity within the volcanic plume , [ 3 ] leading to the name dirty thunderstorm .
At the mouth of the crater, the gases, ejecta, and volcanic plume created a rare weather phenomenon known as volcanic lightning (or a "dirty thunderstorm"). [68] When rocks and other ejecta collide with one another, they create static electricity. This, with the abundant water-ice at the summit, aids in making lightning. [69]
The 2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptions (Icelandic: Eldgosin við Sundhnúksgíga 2023–2024) were a series of volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula, near the town of Grindavík, Iceland. Between December 2023 and December 2024, there were seven eruptions, following an intense series of earthquakes in November 2023.
In pictures: A view of cracks on a road due to volcanic activity near Grindavik 06:30 , Namita Singh A view of cracks, emerged on a road due to volcanic activity, near Grindavik, Iceland 13 ...
Grímsvötn is a basaltic volcano which has the highest eruption frequency of all the volcanoes in Iceland. It has a southwest-northeast-trending fissure system. The massive climate-impacting Laki fissure eruption of 1783–1784 took place in a part of the same Grímsvötn-Laki volcanic system. [ 3 ]