The intensity of solar storms is classified into five levels by the G1-G5, the US-based National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). G stands for geomagnetic effects triggered by Plasma Cloud. Level 5 matches a very strong effect, while level 1 matches a “minor” effect.
Now and then, a solar storm flee to the earth, which inspires a barrage of articles warning global power supply and possible disintegration of phone and satellite communication.
The claims of the thesis can be overheap. But this would be a mistake to reject the theme only as an alarm.
Peak in 2025
The Sun has an 11 -year solar cycle, with current in 2025. When there is a cycle of the sun, it goes to twenty and in its peak.
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The writer’s agreement for music, if a particularly strong solar storm crashes into the earth, it will not only have the power to disrupt power grids and satellites, but also to make the Internet a longer paralyz. He said that our internet has not been designed with severe solar storms of infrastructure width.
Communication through unprotected satellites (such as GPS navigation systems) and undersete cable repters, which are installed every 50 to increase communication signals on long connection routes, is typically weak. A very strong electromagnetic intervention can make the sensitive system completely paralyzed.
And in the United States, the Internet should go down for just one day, an estimated $ 7 billion (€ 6.9 billion) in the US alone.
What happens during a solar storm?
During a solar storm, the sun removes large amounts of electrons and protons, causing a cloud of cosmic rays to fly towards the Earth.
By distorting the magnetic field of the Earth, solar storms increase the polar lights visible on the edges of the northern and southern hemispheres. The solar air -charged particles are obtained from the magnetic field of the Earth and flow to the Earth’s poles with the lines of the region, where they light the bands or arcates of different north or south of the polar circles.
Earth has not seen the full impact of solar storms
In early 1843, astronomer Samuel Heinrich Shwabe found that solar activity follows a few cycles, which is almost at its peak every 11 years.
The strongest solar storm measured on Earth was the so -called Carrington phenomenon in 1859, when the arrival of charged particles led to failures in the North American and European Telegraph Network and Polar Laste, as far as ROM and Hawaii.
After more than a hundred years, in March 1989, a solar storm in Canadian province of Quebec made the entire power grid paralyzed. In electrical distribution systems, Flashwars left some 6 million people sitting in darkness for nine hours.
In July 2012, highly powerful “Carrington” for Caliber Solar Storm According to NASA, Earth was narrowly remembered,
NASA’s study said, “If solar flare was happy just a week ago, the Earth would have the right to bee in the line of fire.”
Suggestions for more strong internet
Like the Carrington phenomenon, an explosion can cripp the digital infrastructure in large parts of the world within a few minutes. For months, if not the year, Jyoti is estimated, large areas will be without communication and power supply.
Jyothi So provides concrete suggestions on how the infrastructure of the Internet can be strengthened. A possibility, he said, the infrastructure of the Internet must move to the south, for example in Central and South America, because the north latitudes are more susceptible to solar storms.
So you suggest the lower and therefore more flexible internet connections, search in Europe and Asia, and the implementation of additional overhead cables, which are less unsafe than long submarine cables that require multiple recurrences.
Edited by: Carla Blekar
The article was published on July 20, 2022, and was updated on 17 September 2025.