Effect of solar storm in economic A few examples of prior events include: • 1847: telegraph services interruptions in Great Britain • 1859: largest solar storm known to date called the Carrington Event causing an almost complete shutdown of the US telegraph system; Northern Lights so bright that people reportedly could read a news paper at night • 1881: telegraph lines in Boston and London reportedly operated without batteries due to surging GICs • 1921: The New York Railroad storm- major sunspot visible with naked eye through smoked glass, Aurora visible in eastern US as well as from Pasadena CA, Signaling and switching systems out of order and fires reported in New York Central Railroad and Central New England Railroad, Interference with telephone and telegraph traffic over Europe including fires in a telegraph station in Sweden • 1940: transformer electric power line shutdowns causing a blackout in North America (New England states, NY, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Quebec and Ontario) • 1958: transatlantic communication cables, affected, fires in telegraph offices in Sweden and transformer failure in British Columbia Canada • 1982: malfunction of railway signals in Sweden • 1994: failure of Canadian ANIK communication satellites on January 20/21, 1994 • 1997: crippling of AT&Ts Telstar 401 communication satellite on January 11 1997 adversely affecting the viability of Skynet satellite service reportedly costing several hundreds of millions dollars of loss • 1998 May: Bangor hydro Electric Co. and Central Maine Power Co. was affected for a short time • 2000: suspected railway signal malfunction in Norway that resulted in 19 fatalities in a rail accident • 2003 October: Blackout in Sweden and transformer damage in South Africa
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