The volcano has already broken several records. Now, a new study reveals more details of this puzzling event by analyzing lightning data.
led by Van Eaton reveals more details of this puzzling event by analyzing lightning data. Researchers found the plume created its own massive weather system — and the most intense lightning storm ever recorded.from any other weather system, storm or volcanic eruption recorded in Earth’s history. Using the data, the team also determined that the eruption lasted for 11 hours, several hours longer than previously estimated.
Lightning in volcanoes isn’t necessarily new. Lightning is caused by an imbalance of electrical charges in the atmosphere. In volcanoes, ash particles scraping against one another, along with hail and ice-forming processes, can electrify airborne particles.“It may be that larger particles were going one direction and smaller particles were going in another, and that helped create the charge separation that leads to electrical discharges,” Van Eaton said.
The lightning also occurred even when other remote, infrared and seismic data were quiet, indicating that the eruption continued for hours longer than scientists had initially thought.
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