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by chrisco255 979 days ago
Any electrical circuits unshielded have potential to overload in a solar storm like the Carrington event. Induction from magnetism creates a current even in disconnected circuitry and wires. See: https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0902magnetic-storm-disrupts-te...

Telegraph operators were able to communicate even though disconnected during the event.

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It's essential to note that,compared to Carrington,

>the Miyake Events (including the newly discovered 14,300-yr-old storm) would have been a staggering entire order-of-magnitude greater in size

and that now 9 of them have been found.

The following links the 2017 Fusa Miyaki-led PNAS paper (complete) concerning 'Large 14C excursion in 5480 BC..."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1613144114