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New Study Finds Earth’s Equatorial Regions Prone to Disruptive Space Weather

Boston College – Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres.

But a new study finds that smaller space weather effects are amplified near the Earth’s equator, putting power grids at risk in regions long considered safe from bad space weather, researchers report in the online edition of the journal…