Earth's strongest magnetic storm in two years observed

Earth
# 14 May 2021 13:48 (UTC +04:00)

Scientists from the Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun of the Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have registered the largest magnetic storm on a planetary scale since 2019, APA reports.

It happened on the evening of May 12th. The level of geomagnetic disturbances at the peak reached seven on a nine-point scale.

"In fact, the Earth experienced one very short and strong cosmic impact. The nature of the event now, after a day and a half, is not yet clear enough. There have been no noticeable events on the Sun," the press service of the institute said.

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