When Earth Gets Zapped

Electrical storms exploded in South-East England, Moscow Russia, northern France Monday May 29 in the wake of an event on the sun reaching earth's magnetic field.

The sun discharged a CME -coronal mass ejection -on May 23, easily enveloping our planet as the shockwave arrived on May 27 with strong magnetic connection to earth.
The impact seemed at first to be weak but then the geomagnetic readings showed a significant disturbance of the magnetic energies of our planet -most easily evidenced by much more widely visible auroras in the northern and southern latitudes.
Spaceweather.com reported on the effects in the US.
New Zealand and Australian skywatchers were also suitably impressed

@iangriffin tweeted a swag of glorious views from the dark skies near southern city of Dunedin NZ

and Dr Tamitha Skov @TamithaSkov has arguably one of the best aurora feeds on Twitter

Halo CME gave data for the shockwave on May 27..the vertical blue line at 14.43 UT showing multiple parameters jumping -and the critical Bz connectivity in the appropriate negative readings for strong magnetic connection to us.

All this electrical activity generated from the sun has flow on effects on earth -not just in pretty auroras which make the effects visible - but also in the violent electrical storms when lightning is discharging by striking earth or terrestrial objects/people -so it is no coincidence that violent electrical storms were recorded in locations where atmospheric conditions enabled the charged particles to have full expression.

It is also highly probable that the massive British Airways power outage is connected to this shockwave event -even though the loss of power -now identified more accurately as a power surge - was indicated at 
The timing of this British Airways power surge event is too co-incidental to dismiss it as unrelated because the shockwave and the power surge have very similar energetic properties. It seems our detection devices are missing something.
A CME impacts earth immediately on the dayside -the locations on earth in day time at the time of the event and at the time of the magnetosphere being compressed.
Given the surprising strength of the magnetic storm, it is possible that strong magnetosphere compression on the morning of May 27 as a result of the incoming shockwave and preceding it - and before the shockwave was recorded - caused the power surge affecting British Airways operations based at Heathrow.

Strong solar generated effects on earth have been noted to coincide with transport crashes, outbreaks of violence, disturbed human and animal behaviours -as well as violent or extreme weather events. Background blog entries in recent years document some of these events

Being Part of A Solar System

A surprising number of Earthlings are oblivious to the fact that our little blue planet is spinning in an indescribably massive solar system in an exponentially much larger universe. It's mind-blowing to even try to think of the scale involved.

When I say oblivious I mean people don't join up the dots and accept that everything that happens in the universe has an impact on us -and more particularly in our own neighborhood, it isn't called a system for no reason. 

It's just that much of what happens is unseen, unheard, unwitnessed
...until a meteor crashes here or our dominant feature the Sun sends a storm in our direction.

Most people won't know when there's a storm that comes from the Sun because it only gets mass media coverage if a widely impacting event happens -like in 1989 when the electricity network of Quebec Canada was blown out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

World governments know that a large magnetic storm generated by our Sun would cause global chaos in the now highly technological world we are dependent on - transport systems, telecommunications, and many services and systems would fail and take a long time to be restored.

On May 8 2016 a minor solar storm disturbed Earth's magnetic field for 27 hours in a row.
The resulting magnetic enhancement affects us in subsequent days - not only our environment, weather, but also human/animal behaviour -extremes occur because our brains have been basically zapped. More lightning occurs, more severe weather events -due to the electrical disturbance of the atmosphere.
NZ has witnessed since May 11 -a severe dog attack on a baby, 2 strong earthquakes, severe weather with lightning developing in the South Island and of course the Prime Minister lost the plot...
In Baghdad the worst violence so far in 2016 occurred on May 11 with multiple car bombs.
These are typical effects consistent with my research.

My original blog report is here
http://astroblognz.blogspot.co.nz/…/sun-flares-earth-storms…

Solar Flares and Events on Earth

What happens on the Sun

 affects human behaviour

scroll to end for ongoing news examples related to magnetic storms & effects 

Disturbances in earth's magnetic field can occur after a solar storm. The terrestrial magnetic response is caused by interaction with charged particles discharged through the solar wind.
Regularly observable consequences occur in human behaviour in the aftermath of enhanced sun to earth magnetic connectivity.

Unlike the majority of others watching astronomical space to earth events, I am keen to see the consequences beyond what mainstream science observes. [power surges, communications interferences]
Observation and intuition combined with data provide a blend of information processing and theorising.

The London & UK riots started as a community protest and developed into anarchy. 
This high profile eruption occurred in concert with an extra large large solar flare measuring X6.9.

In March 2012 there was a swarm of low, medium and strong flares, two being in the highest category -X1.1 and X5.4. coinciding with protests across the globe (locally in NZ relating to the Ports of Auckland staff dismissal).

Reference to the mega flares of recent decades shows that 

• mass protest demonstrations are consistently coincident with elevated geomagnetic energy from solar activity impacting earth. These periods are noteworthy in that respect: November 2003, April 2001, September 2005, December 2006, 1989 (March-November due to 4 X flares), 1991 (January to July due to 8 X flares). 

In addition

•  many high profile accident events involving shipping, planes, trains, road transport and personal vehicles may be observed to cluster in these periods - eg Exxon Valdez March 1989 - this accident proneness is likely due either to system or human malfunction -or both.

[update March 14 2012 Swiss tunnel bus accident mass deaths of children, their teachers and 2 bus drivers]

• Aggressive and military activity appear to be accentuated along with explosive, eruptive and inflamed energies -bombs, fires, volcanoes - which mirror or resonate with the solar flare heat, power and highly charged particles. 
• [March 13 2012 -massive conflagration in Adelaide Australia]

• Individuals and groups 'losing the plot' /extreme behaviour

( March 11 2012 hi-profile example from Afghanistan: a US soldier kills civilians en masse, execution style & a massacre in Homs, Syria. March 15 a Somali man arrested in Christchurch NZ, for a violent rampage, stabbing locals.

March 24 2015 - 150 people die in Germanwings plane crash. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is suspected of deliberate mass killing. This event was subsequent to the largest geomagnetic disturbance seen on Earth for 10 years, beginning March 17 2015) 

  
A New York gas explosion, building collapse and fire on March 27 2015 is the type of explosive event commonly seen after significant solar events affecting earth. Google searches tend to show clusters of similar events in a short time frame in diverse locations
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Since mass behaviour and possibly the group mind is stimulated under disturbed energetic conditions, potential impact on global sharemarkets is also under watch - they certainly dipped in concert with the August 2011 event.
At the very least volatility could be expected.

[March 11 2015 saw an X 2.1 flare- coinciding with a big US stocks tumble  
China's shift in trading balance from exports to imports may have ripple effects.
This new research is an ongoing investigation and may be referred to further in this post in due course.

Solar flares were only first observed as recently as 1859 - though their history obviously predates human recording, but we do not have extensive data. 

The 1859 severe "Carrington Event" is possibly a once in 500 years event and therefore exceeds known flare intensities of modern times.

The November 4 event of 2003 is the strongest flare in the current era with a possible full reading well beyond the initial X28 - possibly up to X45.
Space science is still however in its infancy with flare prediction, like earthquake prediction, unestablished. Even lower intensity X flares have proven to have major disruptive effects on earth, but knowing which factors combine to create this is remains in the category of research. 
So little is truly known of the solar and earth mechanisms.  

OTHER UPDATES since original post

March 24 2012:
NASA says:
...the solar storms of March 8^th through 10^th dumped enough energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years... This was the biggest dose of heat we’ve received from a solar storm since 2005...It was a big event, and shows how solar activity can directly affect our planet-   full report

Protests erupt in the US over the slaying of 17yr old Trayvon Martin -see timeline

March 2 2013
NASA concludes 'something unexpected in happening on the sun', in respect of Cycle 24

March 4 2013
A geostorm event termed 'minor' occurred on March 1 2013 [ the result of a high speed solar wind input] and since then several incidents in the news have the hallmarks of impact on susceptible biological systems and featuring explosive, eruptive and inflamed energies:
Teenagers arson attack causes over $2 million in real estate destroyed [ March 2]
Teenage girls crash an out of control stolen car, all 4 critically injured Auckland NZ [March 3]
Car bomb Karachi Pakistan kills dozens [March 3]

2014

The first X-flare of 2014 and the first of that class since November 2013, in this weak cycle occurred on February 25. 
It was an X4.9 & may be the 3rd strongest in the cycle.

Events clustering in the wake of the major flare are consistent with prior observations: 

• Sudden explosive, eruptive events and behaviours typically with a mass ingredient.
• Sudden violent, terrorist and military activity are examples noted in the past.
• The Earth is also subject to the same forces impacting biological systems so earthquakes & atmospheric turbulence are expected.

Early March 2014: In the news: 
Russia warned by Obama over intervention in troubled Ukraine

Political protest in Thailand

Mass attack in China -multiple deaths & injuries by stabbing - Xinjiang separatist forces blamed
M6.4 earthquake in Nicaragua
M6.7 quake Japan
Destructive gales hit Canterbury New Zealand, March 4 -this weather pattern is typical of the outcome of highly disturbed atmospheric conditions which are produced by major flare activity & develop in the week after the flare event.

My energy analysis of major storms [search Extreme Weather on this site] shows contributing atmospheric factors begin their development clearly even weeks before the terrestrial destruction occurs.

Watch video re research by Alexander Chizhevsky -see link below

Of course the present time 2014 is solar maximum in cycle 24 so the uprisings in diverse global locations, not only the Ukraine situation are of much significance.

MARCH 2 2014

2015

June 22-23 strong magnetic storm on earth

followed by minor magnetic storm on June 25

"Explosion" is one searchable keyword obviously activated at this time. Often involving gas appliances, but also methamphetamine labs, also "bomb" related events, bomb threats.
"Protest" will also come up noticeably in searches for the period June 22-29
"Attack" and "mass killing" incidents occurred in seeming coordination on June 27 2015. Tunisia at least 39 fatalities from suspected Jihadist attack at tourist location.
Kuwait mosque attack kills at least 25 ; Beheading at site of gas facility in France

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Further reading and Data

This list of strongest solar events -most being earth impacting - since 2010.   Note: there was a four year period of no X flares, prior to 2011

CME INDICATES CORONAL MASS EJECTION DETECTED. G RATING IS LEVEL OF GEOMAGNETIC STORMING = EARTH IMPACT FROM 1 LOWEST LEVEL WITH 5 THE MAXIMUM IN THE SCALE
This summary of sunspot cycle 24 shows peak geomagnetic storm periods on earth: September 2011 stands out having 6 storms in one calendar month.  March 2012 so far has had 2.

 

Referencing past strong flares[this list is online]: strong flares since the late 1970's


Further Reading

 Earthquake uptick & solar storms   For correlations between solar storms and earthquakes -
Carrington Event 1859
Solar Flares
Cosmic Radiation effects on human tissue

Also read:

How the Sun Affects Our Minds -based on early [1920's] research by Alexander Chizhevsky

2002 research paper on Planetary geomagnetic indices, human physiology and subjective complaints:

Abstract:
Geomagnetic variations of solar origin correlate with appearance of physiological problems, enhanced anxiety, sleep disturbances, altered moods,and greater incidences of psychiatric admissions.
We have studied the influence of changes in geomagnetic activity (GMA) on human physiological, psycho-physiological parameters and behaviour reactions. In this article we looked for influence of changes in geomagnetic activity on the systolic, diastolic blood pressure, pulse-rate and subjective complaints and we examined 54 working volunteers...