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Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event (youtu.be)

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I guess you already knew since your phone is working.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Just like all storms, the geomagnetic storm scale is imperfect. It maxes out at G5, so it's possible for a substantially worse storm to be in the same category as what we saw last weekend.