Electric Bolt Blasts Inside Lava Plume #3&lt;br /&gt;
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In a stunning display of awesome power, massive volumes of molten lava pours into the Pacific Ocean and instantly explodes resulting in tremendous heat, steam, sulfur gas, glass particles, rock, black sand -- and rarely, a lightning bolt within the raging plume seen here as a violet color above the lava showers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Photo taken at the official Hawaii State Civil Defense lava viewing area on the Big Island