Washington, 9 mar ( EFE).-solar storm that is affecting the Earth intensified Friday causing some interference in the communications before refer, while experts warn you ahead more.
Solar storm was intense, but the geoefectividad remained low during the Thursday due to the orientation of the magnetic field of the planet, explained to Efe Eduardo Araujo, scientific of the national administration of oceans and atmosphere of United States (NOAA).
However, this Friday, “to invest the vertical component of the interplanetary magnetic field, the geoefectividad of the event has increased significantly, and the magnetic storm reached severe levels (G3)”, a climbing five.
The increase in intensity has caused “extensive blocks in VHF radio”, as well as an increase in the margin of error for systems positioning (GPS) and northern lights that have seen in Seattle (Washington) and Sheridan (Wyoming), in the United States.UU., but there have been reported problems with electrical networks, said.
The sun goes through regular cycles of activity and every 11 years approximately produces a peak in activity which usually produce storms which sometimes disfigure and even cross the Earth’s magnetic field.
Araujo recalled that at the moment we are in the upward phase of the solar cycle and the maximum is expected to occur sometime in 2013, so “activity will continue to increase during this period”.
In fact, the American space agency, NASA, has been another coronal mass ejection which are expected to reach Earth on 11 March and, according to the expert, “predicted a magnetic storm intensity similar to which we are now experiencing”. EFE
