{"id":570757,"date":"2019-01-23T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=94784abfad18b1ea814cfc3b5218ecb6"},"modified":"2019-01-23T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:28:35","slug":"extreme-space-weather-can-wreak-havoc-on-earth-these-tools-help-warn-of-the-dangers-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=570757","title":{"rendered":"Extreme space weather can wreak havoc on Earth\u2014these tools help warn of the dangers ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot day in August 1972 toward the end of the Vietnam War, dozens of naval mines\u00a0off the coast of Hai Phong in North Vietnam began to explode without warning. In March 1989, a magnetic surge tripped circuits,\u00a0knocking out power\u00a0in the entire Canadian province of Quebec. While in 1859, an event sparked telegraph lines, igniting fires, and\u00a0northern lights\u00a0so bright that British stargazers could read newspapers at night. These days, scientists know that all these events were caused by intense space weather, capable of wreaking havoc on electric grids and electromagnetically sensitive technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot day in August 1972 toward the end of the Vietnam War, dozens of naval mines&nbsp;off the coast of Hai Phong in North Vietnam began to explode without warning. In March 1989, a magnetic surge tripped circuits,&nbsp;knocking out power&nbsp;in the entire Canadian province of Quebec. While in 1859, an event sparked telegraph lines, igniting fires, and&nbsp;northern lights&nbsp;so bright that British stargazers could read newspapers at night. These days, scientists know that all these events were caused by intense space weather, capable of wreaking havoc on electric grids and electromagnetically sensitive technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570758,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570757\/revisions\/570758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}