An intense solar flare causes changes in communications

October 23, 2012
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An intense solar flare magnitude X1.6 (X is the most intense in the scale) caused substantial alterations in radio communications over a wide area of the planet affecting from India to Australia and much of China, Space Climate Observatory said.

This phenomenon is part of a new solar region, known as AR 11598, which appeared last weekend in the Sun facing Earth. Experts said along these days it had generated significant scale solar activity M (middle) but finally at 05:15 hours on Tuesday starred scale flare X.

This event coincides with the decision of the Federal Energy Agency (FERC) of the U.S. Government, which acknowledged the existence of a ‘loophole’ in security for the country’s power grids.

Power grids are insufficiently prepared for possible extreme geomagnetic effects, which may be triggered by a solar flare.