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Aug 19, 2016 : Solar Storms Potential Impact on Tech
📅 - There is a growing concern amongst a small community that a geomagnetic storm could cause tremendous damage to the nation's infrastructure.
In 1921, there was a geomagnetic storm that was 10 times greater than the 1989 geomagnetic storms that cause massive power outages and left millions of people across the North East without power, including 6 million people in Quebec alone and halting all trading on Toronto's stock market.
Now imagine a solar storm of that magnitude today, and how it would impact us on an even greater scale.
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