Two outbursts from the sun occurred as widespread cellphone outages were reported throughout the United States on Thursday (Feb. 22).
Two powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on the evening of Wednesday (Feb. 21) and during the early morning of Thursday (Feb. 22).
An X1.8-class flare occurred at 6:07 p.m. ET (2307 GMT) on Feb. 21, and another, an X1.7 class flare, erupted at 1:32 a.m. ET (0632 GMT) on Feb. 22.
The flares erupted from a region of the sun that “continues to exhibit strong magnetic complexity,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote in a statement about the events.
“No apparent CMEs resulting from these events have been observed as of the time of this writing, but can not be ruled out,” the agency added.
Nevertheless, NOAA issued an alert today for a solar radio emission at 6:58 a.m. ET (1158 GMT), which are sometimes joined by strong coronal mass ejections (CME) and solar radiation storms.
Meanwhile, nationwide throughout the United States, widespread cellular outages were reported on Thursday morning following the solar flares.
According to The Associated Press, tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers such as AT&T, Verzion and T-Mobile.
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