Bolts of volcanic lightning have been captured coming out of Guatemala's Fuego volcano in extremely rare footage. The video was shot by mountain tour guide Chino Aventuras, who was leading a group of ...

Sakurajima Peninsula seen from a ferry boat from Kagoshima City, Japan. Japan is a country of volcanoes, and Sakurajima is one of its most infamous. Its notoriety stems from its poor behavior in 1914, ...

Volcanic eruptions that spit lightning? These incredible images are not the work of some devious Photoshop wiz, but come from the camera of Martin Rietze, who captured this eruption of the Sakurajima ...

One of the leading killers during explosive volcanic eruptions is a family of superheated gas, ash, and debris known as pyroclastic density currents. These tumbling, turbulent paroxysms rush downslope ...

Were you aware that earthquakes are sometimes associated with luminescence, called earthquake lightning? This phenomenon had been documented throughout history, such as between 1965 and 1967, the ...

Jeffrey Johnson, associate professor of geosciences at Boise State University, contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Japan is a country of volcanoes, and ...