Volcano Tonga is erupting! Hot lava turns everything to ash! Life is paused!

caused over 25,500 lightning strikes in just five minutes. In just six hours, the volcano caused nearly 400,000 lightning strikes. Half of all lightning in the world was concentrated around this volcano at the peak of the eruption. The “catastrophic eruption“ broke “every record“ according to a report by Vaisala, an environmental monitoring company that tracks lightning around the world. “This is the most extreme concentration of lightning we've ever detected,“ Chris Wagaski, meteorologist and Vaisala lightning expert, told CNN. “We've been detecting lightning for 40 years now and it's really extreme.“ The volcano that sparked the planet's biggest eruption in nearly 140 years now appears to have entered a dormant period, says a Kiwi scientist from Tonga who has just finished researching it. But there are signs of new activity at nearby volcanoes, including the famous Tofua, which has a similarly tumultuous history. The Janu