The question is if youre in the water near the lightning.

How does lightning kill you. Wait 30 minutes after the last rumble of thunder to go back outside. Youve probably heard that lighting which strikes a building can get into wiring or water pipes to kill someone talking on a phone with a cord or who is taking a shower. The electric current has to pass through your body to do you any harm and the conducting sea water will carry a.

A lightning strike can act as a massive fibrillator upsetting the hearts electrical rhythm and causing cardiac arrest. Scientists at Northwestern Normal University in Lanzhou China recorded ball lightning during a thunderstorm in Qinghai when they were mapping radiation. Thats in addition to.

When lightning strikes land it dissipates through the surrounding ground. Myth 7 If you touch a lightning victim youll be electrocuted. It is perfectly safe to touch a lightning victim to give them first aid.

While direct strikes can be fatal different types of lightning strikes can kill including less expected ways like a side flash or a streamer. Lightning rarely hits people directly but such strikes are almost always fatal. People are most commonly struck by what are called ground currents.

When an eruption occurs earth and ash are thrown into the air in a giant plume colliding to create an electrical charge. We know that water is a good conductor of electricity so if lightning strikes water it will generate a current. Between 1959 and 2003 or cause cardiac arrest.

This happens but such. It is the cloud-to-ground form of lightning that kills humans as well as animals and livestock and can damage property. A typical lightning flash is about 300 million volts and about 30000 amps.