The Great Blackout (Blackout)

The Great Blackout (also known as The Great One, The Storm, and the June 2022 geomagnetic storm) was a geomagnetic storm and coronal mass ejection that resulted in the end of the Communication Era and modern human civilization that occured on June 16, 2022, during solar cycle 25. The solar flares associated with the Great Blackout have been estimated to reach X43 class, which if true, would be the second most powerful solar flare recorded, behind the 2003 Halloween storm.

Described as a Carrington-class event, the storm was reported on by the GOES-16 satellite operated by NASA and the NOAA at 11:54:12 UTC on June 15, 2022, which observed speeds of up to 2,000-2,400 miles per second.

The European Space Agency projected the coronal mass ejection (CME) caused by the storm to directly impact Earth within ten hours on June 16, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center setting an alert ten minutes after, and the U.S federal government ordering all electric utility companies to shut down the transmission grid and for all flights within U.S airspace to be grounded.

However, within nine hours, the coronal mass ejection had impacted Earth with enough electromagnetic energy to knock out most power transmission grids, cause global radio interference, cause the widespread failure of many electronics and vehicles, and in several cases, lead to reactor incidents at nuclear power plants.

Effects
The effects of the Great Blackout are widespread.