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From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: New Year's Eve idiocy: Plus Hawaiian Hurricanes!
Summary: Solar flare
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.182258.23483@uhura.neoucom.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 91 18:22:58 GMT
References: <4655@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <2525.2796c1e3@verifone.com> <1991Jan25.162922.10692@tc.fluke.COM>
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There is an article in an IEEE spectrum magazine describing
problems with a geomagnetic diruption cuase by solar particle flux.
Check the 1990 volume of Spectrum for info.  My recollection was
that the incident happened last March.  The power grid in Canada
was seriously disrupted to the point where some transmission lines
had to trip out.  Norway and the United States were also effected
to a lesser extent by the same disruption.

==Bill==
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