{"id":1324,"date":"2025-12-07T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:06:32","slug":"how-solar-storms-that-cause-the-northern-lights-have-the-power-to-wreak-havoc-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"How solar storms that cause the Northern Lights have the power to wreak havoc on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of the planning for a severe space weather is based on the Carrington Event of 1859, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This created rapid variations in the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field that caused electricity to be generated in long wires. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Telegraph operators suffered electric shocks, pylons were seen to spark and some conversations between operators could carry on while batteries were disconnected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All this happened a long time ago, but with today&#8217;s advanced technologies the effects of a similar event would be far more disruptive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Satellites can be badly affected. Strong solar storms can cause the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to expand out into space, which creates more drag for satellites. This can cause them to slow down enough for some to deorbit and fall back to Earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is not just a theoretical risk &#8211; in February 2022 a solar storm <a href=\"https:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/5193\/\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">led to the loss of 38 satellites<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orbital changes of satellites also increase the risk of collision and space weather can also play havoc with sensitive electronics on board, causing malfunctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio communications can be badly impacted with GPS systems lost or disrupted for many days &#8211; so your car sat-nav could stop working, creating gridlock in cities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#solar #storms #Northern #Lights #power #wreak #havoc #Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the planning for a sev&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}