{"id":525,"date":"2014-10-24T00:48:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=525"},"modified":"2014-10-24T00:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:48:03","slug":"godzilla-sunspot-takes-aim-x-class-flare-thought-to-be-responsible-for-widespread-power-outages-and-internet-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Godzilla&#8221; Sunspot Takes Aim: X-Class Flare Thought To Be Responsible For Widespread Power Outages and Internet Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/report-godzilla-sunspot-x-class-flare-thought-to-be-responsible-for-widespread-internet-and-power-outages_10232014\">&#8220;Godzilla&#8221; Sunspot Takes Aim: X-Class Flare Thought To Be Responsible For Widespread Power Outages and Internet Problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25349\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ar2192.jpg\" alt=\"ar2192\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A massive sunspot dubbed\u00a0\u2018Active Region 2192\u2032 has rotated into an earth-facing position. NASA says the Jupiter-sized magnetic anomaly on the sun is crackling with energy and several\u00a0days ago it\u00a0<a style=\"color: #7e1416; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQMS7-0Sp-A\" target=\"_blank\">fired off an X-class flare<\/a>\u00a0right in earth\u2019s direction. Then, yesterday, it launched\u00a0<a style=\"color: #7e1416; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/10\/22\/sunspot_2192_x_flare_seen_this_morning.html\" target=\"_blank\">another flare<\/a>\u00a0that was measured to be\u00a0five times more powerful than the first.<\/p>\n<p>Though the classification of both flares was fairly low and rated\u00a0in the 1.0 to 2.0 X-class range, the earth\u2019s power and internet infrastructure has experienced some unusual effects over the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, numerous power outages have been reported by internet providers, electrical utility companies, cable companies and even large inter-networks like MSN.com and Amazon.\u00a0The outages are being\u00a0<a style=\"color: #7e1416; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=realtime&amp;q=outage&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">reported by users on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0all over the northern hemisphere, including from Canada all the way down to\u00a0Boston. Many of the companies involved have suggested that the outages were planned or the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #7e1416; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/hisz.rsoe.hu\/alertmap\/site\/index.php?pageid=event_desc&amp;edis_id=PW-20141022-45730-CAN\" target=\"_blank\">result of wind storms<\/a>, but what is curious is that at the very same time all of these outages were being reported on earth, the National Weather Service\u2019s National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) announced\u00a0that their space-based\u00a0<a style=\"color: #7e1416; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2014\/10\/22\/weather-service-stops-receiving-satellite-data-issues-warning-about-forecast-reliability\/\" target=\"_blank\">satellite systems stopped reporting<\/a>\u00a0data.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence? Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Godzilla&#8221; Sunspot Takes Aim: X-Class Flare Thought To Be Responsible For Widespread Power Outages and Internet Problems. A massive sunspot dubbed\u00a0\u2018Active Region 2192\u2032 has rotated into an earth-facing position. NASA says the Jupiter-sized magnetic anomaly on the sun is crackling with energy and several\u00a0days ago it\u00a0fired off an X-class flare\u00a0right in earth\u2019s direction. 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