Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Striking photos of Chilean volcano

Lightning in the cloud of vapor, gases and debris is quite common in volcanos - all the debris and gasses rubbing violently against each other create quote a lot of static electricity.

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Chaiten3.JPG

A daytime shot of the gas cloud, no lightning.

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Chaiten8.JPG

Lots of other photos here: http://www.nuestroclima.com/blog/

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