The incident was initially blamed on a a geomagneticstorm.
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The Earth (yellow dot) could see a geomagneticstorm over the weekend.
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The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagneticstorm warning for September 13 and 14.
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This was a powerful geomagneticstorm set off by a huge eruption on the sun known as a coronal mass ejection.
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When it hit, the largest geomagneticstorm ever recorded caused sparks to fly off telegraph wires, setting fires to their poles.
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The skies over Svalbard lit up as the particles struck Earth's atmosphere, producing a bright green aurora and intense geomagneticstorm.
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There was a good chance, he said, that the magnetic field's protection would break down some time on Friday, leading to a geomagneticstorm.
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Space engineers, he added, went to some lengths to ensure that spacecraft could continue to operate under the hostile conditions of a geomagneticstorm.
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They run hot under normal circumstances but when a geomagneticstorm triggers an extreme voltage fluctuation the oil that insulates them can start to boil.
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Although the likelihood of this kind of geomagneticstorm, like a big hit from a space rock, is extremely low, its impact would be great.
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NASA's Leila Mays clarified that a weaker M2.0-class event from March 4 should cause a minor geomagneticstorm tonight, Mon.
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Major natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and geomagneticstorms.
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Thompson said really big geomagneticstorms can even speed up the corrosion of pipelines.
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Eruptions on the sun regularly release hot, charged material into space, which can spark geomagneticstorms if they smack into the Earth.
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Physicist Craig Rodger from Otago University is leading New Zealand research into reducing the possible damage to electricity infrastructure from very large geomagneticstorms.