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  2. Lightning strike - Wikipedia

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    According to the CDC there are about 6,000 lightning strikes per minute, or more than 8 million strikes every day. [11] As of 2008 there were about 240,000 "lightning strikes incidents" around the world each year. [12] According to National Geographic in 2009, about 2,000 people were killed annually worldwide by lightning. [13]

  3. Atmospheric electricity - Wikipedia

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    Pockels (1897) estimated lightning current intensity by analyzing lightning flashes in basalt (c. 1900) [12] and studying the left-over magnetic fields caused by lightning. [13] Discoveries about the electrification of the atmosphere via sensitive electrical instruments and ideas on how the Earth's negative charge is maintained were developed ...

  4. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [10] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [clarification needed] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They ...

  5. Lightning bolts by the hundreds, 'constant' thunder: Rare ...

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  6. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    [37] [38] Terraria released on GOG.com on October 2, 2014. [39] A downloadable version of Terraria was released for PlayStation 4 on November 11, 2014, and Xbox One on November 14, 2014, [40] [41] with a retail release on December 2, 2014. [42] In September 2014, Re-Logic announced that Terraria would be coming to macOS and Linux. [43]

  7. List of lightning phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space. [22] [23] [24] [clarification needed] Upward lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this ...

  8. Lightning injury - Wikipedia

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    Preventing lightning injury involves avoiding being outdoors during a thunderstorm. [2] [3] While no place is entirely safe from lightning strikes, it is recommended to seek shelter in a substantial, fully-enclosed building (preferably with electrical attachments and plumbing) or a closed metal vehicle, such as a car.

  9. Mystery of ‘gigantic jet’ lightning bolts 100 times more ...

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    A huge lightning bolt which rose 50 miles into space above a thunderstorm has offered new insights into mysterious ‘gigantic jets’, which carry huge amounts of electrical charge.