The Carrington Event of 1859 is the largest recorded account of a geomagnetic storm, but it is not an isolated event. Geomagnetic storms have been recorded since the early 19th century ...

The most intense geomagnetic storm known to us took place in 1859, causing a power outage and wreaking havoc on Earth’s communication systems. The Carrington Event, named after British ...

A Carrington-class storm could fry more transformers ... One on the order of the 1859 event could take out the entire grid, sending hundreds of millions of people back to a preelectric way of ...

But none of those storms come close to the scale of the 1859 monster. If a Carrington event happened today, the world would likely have to deal with the simultaneous loss of GPS, cell phone ...