Puyehue Volcano Ash & Lightning (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

Photos emerged on Sunday of ash in the aftermath of Saturday's eruption at Puyehue volcano in Chile, as well as a stunning lightning display.

The volcano sent a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky on Saturday, causing the evacuation of approximately 600 people living nearby, the Associated Press reports. The eruption caused a portion of the Chile-Argentina border to be closed. No deaths or injuries have been reported at this time.

See photos below and watch video of lightning at the volcano here.

WATCH MORE VIDEO HERE:

Raw Video: Chilean Volcano Sparks Lightning

Comments

[kadellagroove]

04:31 PM on 06/26/2011

the lightning is cause by zeus getting very mad at the abortions that allowed in the united states. if you drop some acid and look closely you can see that one of the bolts in the first frame spells out Michele Bachmann for Prez. Zeus always shortens his last words and ends them with a Z.

[Anti-Panoptic]

11:46 PM on 06/20/2011

Wow

[TCPITS]

05:44 PM on 06/20/2011

Mother nature can sure be beautiful in her rage.

[AgingLady]

12:20 PM on 06/10/2011

WOW Spectacular photos. Thanks.

[M33TBallz]

09:09 AM on 06/10/2011

Preeeetty pictures.

[cagog]

06:17 PM on 06/09/2011

"'COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL"'

[cdhj12000]

03:06 PM on 06/09/2011

Seems like we are getting a proverbial wake up call. Unusual weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. Rationalize it all you want, but these are unusual occurrences. Weird stuff happening around the world with nature (including animals and such) and human beings. Keep aware folks, it's gonna get weirder!

[JayMonaco]

10:30 AM on 06/09/2011

Sometimes, destructive things are incredibly beautiful.

[M33TBallz]

09:07 AM on 06/10/2011

Volcanos are 'con'structive as well!

[JayMonaco]

09:22 AM on 06/10/2011

Indeed, I suppose all acts of destruction are also acts of creation, are they not?

[Biddie]

05:10 AM on 06/09/2011

I don't think I have ever seen a year this bad for earthquakes, tornados, heat, wildfires, etc. Could it be that they are all associated and that something is going on inside the earth to make the outside so volatile. Tornado season is going to be a blast.

[Max Shaw]

03:39 PM on 06/08/2011

AMAZING! If they make another Harry Potter or Lord of The Rings, they can skip most of the budget on special effects and just use this!

[Prousa]

01:18 PM on 06/08/2011

Awesome. The earth rocks!

[cheo]

01:03 AM on 06/08/2011

The lightning is amazing. What a show. I never knew that happened. When I looked it up, it turns out it happens sometimes and sometimes not. They are not really sure why it happens, only that it seems connected to the height of the steam/ash plume.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/volcano-eruption-lightning.html

This article briefly explains why in spite of Chile's fantastic number of volcanoes, the eruptions are usually pretty mild.
http://www.volcanolive.com/chile.html

[Howard Studstill]

03:58 PM on 06/08/2011

My son says the process is not completely understood but it is due to the static electricity that builds up in the clouds much like a regular storm cloud. .

[Demarcus Jackson]

01:01 AM on 06/08/2011

Breathtaking. Earth is absolutely beautiful.

[Anne Mccormick]

12:39 AM on 06/08/2011

oh am i glad i'm not anywhere near that part of the world.

[cheo]

01:07 AM on 06/08/2011

Aah. You must not live on the West Coast, especially the Northern Cascades.
When I first started skiing at Mt Bachelor in Central OR., I couldn't get used to the holes here and there marked off by bamboo poles...I found out they were volcanic steam vents.

[snowballinhell]

02:33 PM on 06/08/2011

Volcanos recently (geologically speaking) can be found from the west coast all the way to the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains (and everywhere in between). Two of the most prominent can be seen from space, one in northern Arizona and one in New Mexico. Both are cinder cones, stone cold black in color. The Carrizozo Malpais in south central New Mexico is about 5,200 years old, but looks like it cooled yesterday.

http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1210-01-

Meanwhile in nearby northern Arizona, there is a vast volcanic field just north of Flagstaff that spreads north, east and west for hundreds of square miles. Famous for Sunset Crater (as well as the San Francisco Peaks) there are literally hundreds of cinder cones dotting the landscape, many of which are so recent that they stand out clearly in photos taken from space. A couple of cinder cones in particular stand out distinctly due to their coal black color and lava flows. There are more than 500 volcanos in the San Francisco volcanic field, one dating between 1,200 and 500 years ago.

http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1209-02-

[tbwr4]

11:11 PM on 06/07/2011

Amazing Pics of Volcanic Eruption - Sorry, thought this was another Democrat Anthony Weiner update, my bad. Still, it does remind one of the Bill Clinton re-runs, eh Monica?