VIDEO: Lightning strikes surveillance camera over Lake Superior

Footage shot on Wednesday shows a bolt of lightning striking the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota.

DULUTH, Minn. – The Great Lakes Aquarium in northern Minnesota was struck by lightning Wednesday.

Located on the western shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, the aquarium experienced the strike as a thunderstorm passed through the area Tuesday afternoon.

Footage shot by a camera operated by Duluth Harbor Cam shows the yellow-white lightning bolt streaking down from the sky and making contact with the roof of the lakeside aquarium.

Looped video of lightning hitting the Great Lakes Aquarium.

(Duluth Harbor Cam / FOX Weather)

Perhaps ironically, a camera on the roof of the aquarium experienced the brunt of the strike, officials said.

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They noted that no guests, aquarium staff or animals were injured by the lightning strike.