Solar storm risks could top $1 trillion and cause long recovery: Experts
May 10, 2010 by Mark A. Hofmann
“Major explosions emanating 93 million miles away have the potential to cause more than $1 trillion in economic and societal costs here on earth, according to a space weather expert.”
NOAA - Strong Geomagnetic Storm in Progress
April 5, 2010 Source: Space Environment Center (NOAA)
“A geomagnetic storm began at 05:55 AM EST Monday, April 5, 2010. The source of the storming is an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection associated with a weak solar flare that occurred in Active Region 1059 on April 3 at 05:54 AM EST.”
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Power Surge Blacks Out Northeast
August 15, 2003 By James Barron
Source: Windows 2 Universe
“Asurge of electricity to western New York and Canada touched off a series of power failures and enforced blackouts yesterday that left parts of at least eight states in the Northeast and the Midwest without electricity…”
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Giant Solar Eruption Predicted to Cause Major Geomagnetic Storm
October 28, 2003 Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
“A gigantic solar flare erupted on the surface of the Sun. That explosion blasted tremendous amounts of energy and matter into space, sending a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward the Earth. That CME is predicted to create a major geomagnetic storm…”
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The HydroQuebec Blackout of March 1989
“On March 13, 1989, at 2:44 am, a transformer failure on one of the main power transmission lines in the HydroQuebec system precipitated a catastrophic collapse of the entire power grid…”
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