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New Zealand Quake's Strange Side Effect: What Are Earthquake Lights?
By Tia Ghose published
After the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand, bystanders reported flickering green and blue lights that are known as earthquake lights.

How Hot Is Lightning?
By Yuen Yi published
Scientists create artificial lightning strikes to study the temperature inside real bolts of lightning.

Shocking News: World's Longest Lightning Bolt Was Nearly 200 Miles
By Kacey Deamer published
The longest recorded flash of lightning covered a horizontal distance of 199.5 miles.

Lightning Nearly 3 Times as Deadly as Tornadoes This Year
By Laura Geggel published
Death by lightning strike may seem rare, but lightning has killed nearly three times as many people this year as tornadoes have, the National Weather Service reports.

More Than 300 Reindeer Killed By Lightning: Here's Why
By Kacey Deamer published
A lightning storm killed 323 reindeer, including 70 calves, in an unusually deadly event.

Why Lightning Deaths Are Up This Year
By Laura Geggel published
Lightning has already killed as many people in the U.S. this year as in all of 2015, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
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