{"id":3182,"date":"2012-06-01T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:34:57","slug":"m-class-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/m-class-flare-3182.html","title":{"rendered":"The Little Solar Flare That Could"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regardless of whether you are a survivalist ready to flee to your safe spot, or a power grid executive, the thing you are watching for is an X-Class solar flare, and a large one at that. All types of extra-nasty space weather tend to be associated with the largest solar flares.<\/p>\n

The biggest flare of recent times was an X28 in 2003. An X28 is 28 times more powerful than an X1, and X-Class flares are bigger than M-Class.<\/p>\n

Consequently scientists are puzzled over a May 17 solar flare<\/a> that was rated as M-Class. For some reason it triggered the first GLE (ground-level enhancement) to light up neutron monitors on Earth in six years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis solar flare was most unimpressive and the associated CME was only slightly more energetic,\u201d said James Ryan, an astrophysicist at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center (SSC). \u201cAnd looking at it optically, it was remarkably dim, it was, all things considered, a 98-pound weakling of solar events.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It could mean that power grids are able to be knocked out by a sun storm that is not big enough for engineers to prepare for. Hopefully the scientists can solve this puzzle soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Regardless of whether you are a survivalist ready to flee to your safe spot, or a power grid executive, the thing you are watching for is an X-Class solar flare, and a large one at that. All types of extra-nasty space weather tend to be associated with the largest solar flares.<\/p>\n
The biggest flare of recent times was an X28 in 2003. An X28 is 28 times more powerful than an X1, and X-Class flares are bigger than M-Class.
\nConsequently scientists are puzzled over a May 17 solar flare that was rated as M-Class. For some reason it triggered the first GLE (ground-level enhancement) to light up neutron monitors on Earth in six years.
\n\u201cThis solar flare was most unimpressive and the associated CME was only slightly more energetic,\u201d said James Ryan, an astrophysicist at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center (SSC). \u201cAnd looking at it optically, it was remarkably dim, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}