Earth in danger? A strong solar storm began to destabilize satellites

The event will continue for several hours before the geomagnetic situation stabilizes.

The strongest geomagnetic storm of the planet on Earth has just begun, said Russian astrophysicist Sergei Bogachov.

"For the moment, the event is at its peak," Bogachov said at around 10.10 GMT.

This principal investigator of the solar astronomy laboratory of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences clarified that it was "a storm of degree three on a scale of one to five ", so that" this is not a maximum event ". Solar storms of maximum intensity occur once every ten or twenty years, stressed.

The storm started around 3 am and will continue until nightfall. The scientist explained that such events caused aurora borealis and interference in radio communications, as well as power grid problems and the destabilization of satellite orbits.

Finally, the researcher warned that the storm could also negatively affect people sensitive to changes in the Earth's magnetic field.