{"id":4768,"date":"2013-01-12T08:54:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2013-01-12T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:54:54","slug":"giant-sunspot-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/01\/giant-sunspot-on-the-horizon-4768.html","title":{"rendered":"Giant Sunspot on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?attachment_id=4769\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4769\" title=\"ar1654_anim\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ar1654_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is all about potential. While a killer solar storm could catch us unawares in the quietest part of the solar cycle, the odds of it happening greatly increase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at the height of the solar cycle (more sunspots to erupt)<\/li>\n<li>from clusters of sunspots<\/li>\n<li>from large sunspots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If sunspot\u00a0AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still \u00a0most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. While scientists say that the odds are something like 8% (or much less) per solar cycle peak, readers of this blog should be smart enough to add in the potential that the Mayan calendar was pointing to major natural event.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> (even better, sign up for their email and SMS alerts), and if there is an X-Flare greater than say 15 (which is 15x more powerful than a 1) &#8211; activate your escape\/survival plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SOLAR FLARE ALERTS: Would you like a call when solar flares are underway? X-flare alerts are available from<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweathertext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spaceweathertext.com<\/a>\u00a0(text) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweatherphone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spaceweatherphone.com<\/a>\u00a0(voice).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet.<\/p>\n<p>It is all about potential. While a killer solar storm could catch us unawares in the quietest part of the solar cycle, the odds of it happening greatly increase:<\/p>\n<p>at the height of the solar cycle (more sunspots to erupt)<br \/>\nfrom clusters of sunspots<br \/>\nfrom large sunspots<\/p>\n<p>If sunspot\u00a0AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still \u00a0most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. While scientists say that the odds are something like 8% (or much less) per solar cycle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,129,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-cycle-24","category-solar-storm","category-sunspots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","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=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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