magnetic storm
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Colorful auroras appeared around Japan's Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The magnetic storm which disrupted communications Easter Sunday was probably started, thinks Professor Menzel, when the earth coursed through the tail end of a corona streamer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One day last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out.
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But it has failed to show with certainty any peculiar emanation at the time of a magnetic storm or anything connected with such a storm.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
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