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North American electricity power-grid and communication-network anomalies for several magnetic storms

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1940
End Date
2000

Citation

Love, J.J., and Murphy, B.S., 2022, North American electricity power-grid and communication-network anomalies for several magnetic storms: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N4DVNT.

Summary

Anomaly lists are presented documenting operational interference to electricity power grids and communication networks in the United States and Canada during magnetic storms. Four of the anomaly lists apply for magnetic storms that occurred in March 1989, August 1972, March 1940, and for various storms 1946-2000; yet another list consists of statistical values summarizing geomagnetically induced current data for 1969-1972. The lists are compiled from source published papers, technical documents, and research papers. These sources generally include brief descriptions of each anomaly and attribution to a particular magnetic storm. Other information, when given, includes utility company name, facility name, start date and time, end date [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jeffrey J Love
Originator :
Jeffrey J Love, Benjamin S Murphy
Metadata Contact :
Jeffrey J Love
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Geologic Hazards Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards

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1972.csv 15.9 KB text/csv
1989.csv 28.19 KB text/csv
Albertson.csv 7.36 KB text/csv
Other-anomalies.csv 9.91 KB text/csv
metadata.faq.html 33.43 KB text/html
1940-c.csv 4.97 KB text/csv
1940-e.csv 2.88 KB text/csv
fig1-anomalies.png thumbnail 1.52 MB image/png

Purpose

The data are useful for assessing magnetic-storm impacts to power-grid and telephone-network systems.

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Provenance

Anomalies are reported in cited publications. These reports are now listed in computer readable format, locations of the anomalies have been estimated from either a Department of Homeland database, by geolocation from maps (cited), or from internet searches (noted in each data file).

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9N4DVNT

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