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    A volcanic eruption from the long dormant Chaitén volcano in Chile produced tons of ash and dust that collided with an overhead lightning storm, creating a spectacular display as lightning flickered around the volcanic dust cloud. The eruption was particularly notable because the Chaitén volcano had been dormant for hundreds or thousands of years before awakening on Friday, sending an ash plume 20km into the sky and coating the surrounding land in ash.

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    A volcanic eruption from the long dormant Chaitén volcano in Chile produced tons of ash and dust that collided with an overhead lightning storm, creating a spectacular display as lightning flickered around the volcanic dust cloud. The eruption was particularly notable because the Chaitén volcano had been dormant for hundreds or thousands of years before awakening on Friday, sending an ash plume 20km into the sky and coating the surrounding land in ash.

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    Volcano Meets Thunderstorm

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    A volcanic eruption from the long dormant Chaitén volcano in Chile produced tons of ash and dust that collided with an overhead lightning storm, creating a spectacular display as lightning flickered around the volcanic dust cloud. The eruption was particularly notable because the Chaitén volcano had been dormant for hundreds or thousands of years before awakening on Friday, sending an ash plume 20km into the sky and coating the surrounding land in ash.

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    When a Volcano meets a Thunderstorm

    Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:54:18 -0700 - Two of nature's most spectacular forces produced an incredible brew in the skies of Chile as a volcanic
    eruption met a lightning storm. Tons of dust and ash from the eruption of the Chait?n volcano poured into the night sky just as an electric storm
    passed overhead. The resulting collision created a spectacular sight as lightning flickered around the dust cloud amid the orange glow of the volcano.

    The eruption was all the more spectacular because the Chait?n volcano 1,290km south of Santiago, has been dormant for hundreds - if not thousands - of
    years. The Patagonian volcano began erupting on Friday and the 20km-high plume has left vast tracts of land coated with a layer of ash.

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