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A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave. The disturbance that drives the magnetic storm may be a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or (much less severely) a co-rotating interaction region (CIR), a high-speed stream of solar wind originating ...
On Sunday afternoon, the agency upgraded the storm's strength to G4, or "severe," indicating a major disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. The storm is expected to remain at a "strong" G3 level ...
A geomagnetic storm is heading to Earth, with the possibility to disrupt GPS and communications. It could also bring the northern lights to Northern California, much farther south than is typical.
Solar activity Friday Oct. 24, 2003, is seen by NASA\'s SOHO satellite. A geomagnetic storm spawned by a giant eruption of gas on the sun barreled toward Earth on Friday, interfering with high ...
A negative Dst index means that Earth's magnetic field is weakened. [15] This is particularly the case during solar storms, with a higher negative Dst index indicating a stronger solar storm. The 2003 Halloween solar storms had a peak Dst index of −383 nT, although a second storm on 20 November 2003 reached −422 nT while not reaching G5-class.
Disturbance storm time index (Dst index) is an estimate of the magnetic field change at the Earth's magnetic equator due to a ring of electric current at and just earthward of the geosynchronous orbit. [41] The index is based on data from four ground-based magnetic observatories between 21° and 33° magnetic latitude during a one-hour period ...
NOAA defines a geomagnetic storm as “a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment ...
The March 1989 geomagnetic storm occurred as part of severe to extreme solar storms during early to mid March 1989, the most notable being a geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on March 13. This geomagnetic storm caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system. The onset time was exceptionally rapid. [1]