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2017-02-13
Grade | Date | Headline | Source |
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LOW | 10 Oct 2024 | Hurricane Milton Aftermath: Over 3 Million without Power in Florida | [AP] |
SEVERE | 02 Oct 2024 | 360 Substations Down in Carolinas | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 06 Apr 2024 | President issues energy efficiency restrictions on key power grid technology | [Climate Depot] |
LOW | 04 Aug 2023 | Cyberattack Disrupts Hospitals, Healthcare in 5 States | [Newsmax] |
MOD | 27 Jul 2023 | Largest US Power Grid Declares Emergency Alert amid Scorching Heat | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 24 Jul 2023 | LA Times Asks Readers ‘Would an Occasional Blackout Help Solve Climate Change?’ – ‘We Might Not Have a Choice’ | [Climate Depot] |
LOW | 19 Feb 2023 | Power Outage Impacts More than 50,000 Customers near Oakland | [KRON] |
LOW | 03 Feb 2023 | High-altitude Chinese balloons over mountain state military bases considered key EMP delivery platform | [Washington Examiner] |
MOD | 05 Sep 2022 | California Declares Grid Emergency as Odds of Blackouts Rise | [Yahoo] |
LOW | 20 Jul 2022 | 200 Million Americans Facing Brutal Heat Raises Alarm over Power Grid Stability | [ZeroHedge] |
MOD | 18 May 2022 | Vast Swath of Country at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns | [Bloomberg] |
LOW | 22 Mar 2022 | Russia exploring options for potential cyberattacks on American energy sector, FBI warns | [MSN] |
LOW | 08 Mar 2022 | Spotify and Discord Experience Widespread Outages | [Android Police] |
LOW | 04 Mar 2022 | Verizon phone outages across East Coast | [MSN] |
LOW | 22 Feb 2022 | Russian cyberattacks targeting banks, power plants, water treatment facilities, and satellite communications expected if Ukraine War starts | [WNYW] |
LOW | 01 Feb 2022 | Texas Gov Say Approaching Cold Front Could Cause Power Outages | [Texas Tribune] |
LOW | 21 Dec 2021 | CME Produced by Solar Flare Expected to Arrive at Earth as a Glancing Blow on December 23 | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 16 Nov 2021 | 30k Websites Down after Google Cloud Outage | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 14 Sep 2021 | Tropical Storm Nicholas Knocks out Power to over 400,000 in Texas | [Reuters] |
LOW | 06 Sep 2021 | Nearly a Week without Power in New Orleans | [MSN] |
LOW | 31 Aug 2021 | Louisiana Power Outages Map | [PowerOutageUS] |
LOW | 30 Aug 2021 | Hurricane Ida knocks out New Orleans power | [AP] |
LOW | 17 Aug 2021 | California Eclectic Utility Warns It May Black out Customers to Reduce Wildfire Risks | [WSJ] |
LOW | 13 Aug 2021 | Severe Thunderstorms Cause Historic Power Outage across Michigan | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 30 Jun 2021 | Triple-Digit Heat Dome Bakes Pacific Northwest, Triggers First Blackout | [ZeroHedge] |
MOD | 16 Feb 2021 | National Power Outage Map | [PowerOutageUS] |
MOD | 16 Feb 2021 | Houston-area warns of several more days of no electricity | [ZeroHedge] |
MOD | 16 Feb 2021 | Pool of utilities covering 14 states say blackouts are last resort to preserve electric system as a whole | [AP] |
MOD | 16 Feb 2021 | Millions Endure Record Cold without Power with at Least 16 Dead | [Winston-Salem Journal] |
MOD | 16 Feb 2021 | Blackouts in 14 States as Power-Grid Emergency Strikes | [Insider] |
LOW | 15 Feb 2021 | Over 2 Million Lose Power in Texas; Rolling Blackouts to Continue as Temperatures Plunge | [The Weather Channel] |
LOW | 01 Feb 2021 | Russia Deploys Super-Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon - China Is Ready Too | [Strange Sounds] |
LOW | 26 Jan 2021 | Massive Internet Outage Hits East Coast due to Fiber Cut in Brooklyn | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 02 Jan 2021 | Federal Officials Privately Worried Russia Stole Blueprints for US Blackout Restoration | [Yahoo] |
LOW | 17 Dec 2020 | US Tests Cyberattacks on the Grid at Plum Island | [Cyberscoop] |
LOW | 14 Dec 2020 | Google YouTube, Gmail Suffer Global Outage | [Reuters] |
LOW | 29 Oct 2020 | Zeta Leaves Nearly 2 Million without Power | [The Weather Channel] |
MOD | 17 Sep 2020 | Hundreds of Thousands Still Without Power in Florida, Alabama | [The Weather Channel] |
LOW | 27 Aug 2020 | Hurricane Interrupts Power for 700,000 | [Accuweather] |
MOD | 17 Aug 2020 | Grid operator: 3.3 million California homes could lose power | [Google] |
MOD | 16 Aug 2020 | Worst Power Shortage in Two Decades for California | [Yahoo] |
MOD | 15 Aug 2020 | Two Million Californians Go Dark and the Heat Is Just Beginning | [MSN] |
LOW | 02 May 2020 | President Signs Executive Order to Secure US Bulk-Power System | [White House] |
LOW | 27 Mar 2020 | Surging Traffic Slowing Down Internet | [DNYUZ] |
LOW | 20 Mar 2020 | Power Industry May Ask Staff to Live on Site as Coronavirus Outbreak Worsens | [The Hill] |
LOW | 19 Mar 2020 | Netflix to Slow down Streaming so the Internet Doesn't Break | [Entertainment Weekly] |
LOW | 06 Mar 2020 | Empty Offices, Full Homes: Covid-19 Might Strain the Internet | [Bloomberg] |
LOW | 17 Oct 2019 | Over 500,000 without Power as Nor'easter Bashes New England | [ABC] |
LOW | 10 Oct 2019 | Searchable Map of Northern California Power Outages | [KQED] |
LOW | 10 Oct 2019 | Half Million Californians without Electricity in Planned Shutdown by Pacific Gas & Electric | [NYT] |
LOW | 05 Sep 2019 | More than 270,000 Power Outages Reported across SC as Dorian Travels up Coast | [Post and Courier] |
LOW | 13 Jul 2019 | Massive power outage in New York City | [CBS] |
LOW | 03 Jun 2019 | Did the Government Just Test the Internet Kill Switch? | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 28 May 2019 | More than 5 Million Left without Power in Ohio after Tornadoes | [UK Daily Mail] |
LOW | 13 Mar 2019 | Facebook and Instagram Suffer Widespread Global Outage | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 13 Mar 2019 | Gmail, Google Drive Hit with Global Outage | [CNET] |
LOW | 24 Jan 2019 | China, Russia Building Super-EMP Bombs for 'Blackout Warfare' | [Washington Free Beacon] |
LOW | 29 Dec 2018 | Centurylink System Failure Causes 911 Outages across the US | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 06 Dec 2018 | Another Big EMP Training Event | [YouTube] |
LOW | 12 Oct 2018 | Global Internet Outage Possible over Next 48 Hours | [Fossbytes] |
LOW | 11 Oct 2018 | Hurricane Michael Leaves 200-Mile Long Trail of Destruction, 700k without Power | [Youtu] |
LOW | 14 Sep 2018 | 600K without power in Carolinas | [CNN] |
LOW | 24 Jul 2018 | California Was Warned Months Ago Its Grid Could Buckle in the Heat. Now It’s Happening. | [Daily Caller] |
LOW | 24 Jul 2018 | California Power Grid Urges Consumers to Conserve Energy in Heat Wave | [Yahoo] |
LOW | 17 Jul 2018 | Texas Power Demand Breaking Records during Heat Wave | [Reuters] |
LOW | 04 Jul 2018 | Heat Wave sends power demand surging to highest in years | [Bloomberg] |
LOW | 09 May 2018 | Record-breaking electricity usage expected this summer in Texas | [CBS] |
LOW | 09 May 2018 | California grid operator sees tight power supplies for summer | [KFGO] |
LOW | 05 May 2018 | Michigan power outages: 308,000 in the dark after high winds | [Detroit Free Press] |
LOW | 17 Apr 2018 | Twitter down briefly | [UK Sun] |
LOW | 10 Apr 2018 | Nation's emergency alert systems aren't safe from hackers | [McClatchy] |
LOW | 27 Mar 2018 | Electric grid vulnerable to unprecedented waves of attack | [Washington Free Beacon] |
LOW | 04 Mar 2018 | 2 million in 13 States struggle with power loss after nor'easter | [ABC] |
LOW | 02 Mar 2018 | Powerful Nor'easter leaves 1.6 million homes without power | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 02 Mar 2018 | Severe winds leave more than 700,000 without power in DC area | [WTOP] |
LOW | 30 Jan 2018 | Cold winters are testing the limits of US energy grid | [The Hill] |
LOW | 15 Nov 2017 | Thousands of AT&T outages across the country | [Fox2now] |
LOW | 07 Nov 2017 | Comcast internet goes down nationwide | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 30 Oct 2017 | Over 1.1 million lose power as strong coastal low hits East Coast | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 26 Oct 2017 | New 'reaper' malware infects millions of devices worldwide | [YouTube] |
LOW | 24 Oct 2017 | Severe storm, destructive tornadoes roll through Carolinas, 98,000 without power | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 12 Oct 2017 | Congress warned NKorean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans' | [Washington Examiner] |
LOW | 10 Oct 2017 | Snowstorm leaves 102,000 customers without power in Denver | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 21 Sep 2017 | STRATCOM Commander warns EMP is a realistic threat to US | [YouTube] |
HIGH | 11 Sep 2017 | Nearly half of Florida in the dark | [Fox News] |
HIGH | 10 Sep 2017 | Over 3 million lose power in Florida from Irma | [Reuters] |
MOD | 10 Sep 2017 | Report: Hackers can now cause blackouts on American electrical grid | [American Thinker] |
MOD | 10 Sep 2017 | Millions without power in Florida | [Tallahassee Democrat] |
MOD | 08 Sep 2017 | Hurricane Irma power outage forecast map | [Umich] |
MOD | 06 Sep 2017 | Iram puts 900,000 without power in Puerto Rico | [Chicago Tribune] |
MOD | 28 Aug 2017 | 280,000 Texans without power on Monday | [CNBC] |
MOD | 28 Aug 2017 | Cell Networks suffer outages in Harvey’s wake | [WSJ] |
LOW | 14 Aug 2017 | SHINING STAR: Congressional expert warns NK satellite could launch surprise EMP attack | [YouTube] |
LOW | 14 Aug 2017 | Chuck Norris: What Govt and media won’t tell you 1 nuke can do | [WND] |
MOD | 09 Aug 2017 | 'Black sky event' – Feds prepping for widespread power outages across US | [Infowars] |
LOW | 03 Aug 2017 | Jeremiah Johnson: North Korea Can Deliver a Warhead Containing an EMP Weapon Dead Center over the Continental United States | [SHTFplan] |
LOW | 30 Jul 2017 | Congressional Report: American power grid vulnerable... | [News Target] |
LOW | 09 Jul 2017 | Amid heat wave, fire causes power outage for 140,000 in LA | [NYT] |
LOW | 09 Jul 2017 | Overnight storms leave 156,000 Michigan homes without power | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 09 Jul 2017 | Unpublished internal FEMA report says major solar storm could knock grid down 4-10 years | [All News Pipeline] |
LOW | 09 Jul 2017 | Report: Hackers breached a dozen American nuclear plants | [BBC] |
LOW | 29 Jun 2017 | American nuclear plant computer system cyberbreached over recent months | [ABC] |
LOW | 28 Jun 2017 | New computer virus spreads from Ukraine to disrupt world business | [Reuters] |
LOW | 27 Jun 2017 | Another Massive Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global Fast | [Forbes] |
LOW | 23 Jun 2017 | 69,000 customers without power after thunderstorms lash Detroit | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 17 Jun 2017 | Strong storm sweeps through Omaha, leaves 76,000 homes without power | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 17 Jun 2017 | Claim: New Russian cyberweapon can cause blackouts anywhere in the world | [Interestingengineering] |
LOW | 16 Jun 2017 | YouTube issues... | [YouTube] |
LOW | 15 Jun 2017 | Twitter briefly goes down... | [Downdetector] |
LOW | 12 Jun 2017 | Cyber experts identify malware that could disrupt US power grid | [WSJ] |
LOW | 07 Jun 2017 | Amazon product pages go down in rare outage | [The Verge] |
LOW | 31 May 2017 | Massive storm causes third largest outage in Memphis | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 29 May 2017 | WannaCry ransom notice analysis suggests Chinese link | [BBC] |
LOW | 23 May 2017 | Fiber cut causing wireless service issues and outages for AT&T | [YouTube] |
LOW | 22 May 2017 | New 'Eternal Rocks' worm more dangerous than #WannaCry identified | [YouTube] |
MOD | 17 May 2017 | Another large-scale cyberattack underway | [Yahoo] |
MOD | 16 May 2017 | Hackers unleash second NSA-developed cyber-weapon on dark web | [ZeroHedge] |
MOD | 15 May 2017 | Experts wary of another WannaCry flare-up | [WSJ] |
MOD | 15 May 2017 | 29,000 Chinese institutions hit... | [Yahoo] |
MOD | 15 May 2017 | Microsoft slams NSA for letting its hacking tools cause global malware epidemic | [ZeroHedge] |
MOD | 13 May 2017 | 'WannaCry' Ransomeware Blitz: Microsoft releases unusually urgent patch... | [YouTube] |
MOD | 12 May 2017 | Massive Worldwide Cyberattack | [Fox News] |
MOD | 12 May 2017 | POTUS orders preparation for electric grid cyberattacks | [Washington Free Beacon] |
MOD | 10 May 2017 | Cyber Command Chief: Foreign states prepping cyberattacks on infrastructure in future war | [Washington Free Beacon] |
MOD | 08 May 2017 | Word of NKorea ability to cause EMP catastrophe getting out | [Breitbart] |
LOW | 02 May 2017 | Internet outages from coast to coast... | [Youtu] |
LOW | 22 Apr 2017 | 88,000 blacked-out in San Francisco | [SFGate] |
LOW | 30 Mar 2017 | Severe weather knocks out power to 200,000 Texans | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 22 Mar 2017 | 230K lose power across Georgia and Tennessee | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 21 Mar 2017 | Microsoft Outlook hit by another global service outage | [ZeroHedge] |
LOW | 12 Mar 2017 | Windstorm knock out power to 120,000+ western NY homes | [U.S. News & World Report] |
MOD | 10 Mar 2017 | 60 mph winds knock out power to tens of thousands in Wisconsin | [U.S. News & World Report] |
MOD | 09 Mar 2017 | Windstorm cuts power to more than one million in Michigan | [The Watchers] |
LOW | 08 Mar 2017 | AT&T outage affects 911 mobile calls nationwide | [ABC] |
LOW | 07 Mar 2017 | Microsoft services including Outlook, Hotmail and Xbox are down across the world | [Manchestereveningnews] |
LOW | 07 Mar 2017 | How a viral tweet overwhelmed the Nation’s 911 call centers | [New York] |
LOW | 03 Mar 2017 | Widespread service outages on Verizon, MetroPCS , T-Mobile and AT&T | [YouTube] |
LOW | 28 Feb 2017 | Massive internet outage sweeping East Coast | [BGR] |
LOW | 20 Feb 2017 | Severe storm leaves nearly 40,000 without power in San Antonio | [Yahoo] |
LOW | 13 Feb 2017 | Weather Service suffers ‘catastrophic’ outage | [Washington Post] |