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  2. Electromagnetic interference - Wikipedia

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    An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), sometimes called a transient disturbance, arises where the source emits a short-duration pulse of energy. The energy is usually broadband by nature, although it often excites a relatively narrow-band damped sine wave response in the victim. Sources divide broadly into isolated and repetitive events.

  3. Power outage - Wikipedia

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    During a power outage, there is a disruption in the supply of electricity, resulting in a loss of power to homes, businesses, and other facilities. Power outages can occur for various reasons, including severe weather conditions (e.g. storms, hurricanes, or blizzards), earthquakes, equipment failure, grid overload, or planned maintenance.

  4. Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia

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    An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy. The origin of an EMP can be natural or artificial, and can occur as an electromagnetic field, as an electric field, as a magnetic field, or as a conducted electric current.

  5. Electromagnetic field - Wikipedia

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    A notable application of visible light is that this type of energy from the Sun powers all life on Earth that either makes or uses oxygen. A changing electromagnetic field which is physically close to currents and charges (see near and far field for a definition of "close") will have a dipole characteristic that is dominated by either a ...

  6. Noise (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    In electronics, noise is an unwanted disturbance in an electrical signal. [1]: 5 Noise generated by electronic devices varies greatly as it is produced by several different effects. In particular, noise is inherent in physics and central to thermodynamics. Any conductor with electrical resistance will generate thermal noise inherently.

  7. Ionospheric storm - Wikipedia

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    There can be strong disturbances to telecommunications in the event of an ionospheric storm, where in middle and high altitudes, [25] radio communications are considered “ineffective.” [25] This is due to radio waves being found in the ionosphere where the sudden increase of solar wind and energised electrons will interfere.

  8. Geomagnetic storm - Wikipedia

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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 corotating interaction region (CIR), a high-speed stream of solar wind originating ...

  9. Atmospheric instability - Wikipedia

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    The approaching boundary will create a disturbance in the atmosphere producing a wave-like motion, known as a gravity wave. Although the undular bore waves appear as bands of clouds across the sky, they are transverse waves, and are propelled by the transfer of energy from an oncoming storm and are shaped by gravity. The ripple-like appearance ...