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 ...

Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about 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 ...

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 ...

And while the advisory assured that the “likelihood of an eruption continues to gradually decline,” the 11,000-foot-tall volcano remains at an “elevated state of unrest,” meaning that an “explosive ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A volcanic eruption in January of 2022 may have been the trigger for the most violent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a dramatic display Sunday night, shooting lava fountains over 1,000 feet into the air. The ...

The January 2022 eruption generated more than 192,000 lightning flashes and sent a volcanic plume of ash 36 miles into the sky. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, which produced the ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to “see” and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano. When Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began rumbling ...

Scientists say the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii isn't done erupting. And it's not alone: 54 eruptions have been reported in 2025.