The probability that another Carrington flare could occur within the next 10 years is 12 percent, according to a paper authored by Pete Riley from Predictive Sciences Inc. Others suggest that, although the probability of a solar storm occurring in the near future is very low, it is almost inevitabl
Date: Jan 22, 2017
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Solar "superstorm" warning: One in 10 chance civilisation-wrecking blast will hit
nding of what causes these blasts is still sketchy. There is a 12 percent chance of a super solar storm the size of the Carrington event hitting Earth in the next 10 years, according to physicist Pete Riley, who published a paper in the journal Space Weather earlier this year on the topic."Initially,
Date: Jul 28, 2014
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How a storm on the sun almost wreaked havoc on Earth – but didn't
The CME the sun launched on July 23, 2012, "wasn't an extreme event from a societal point of view" because "it didn't even come close to impacting the Earth," says Pete Riley, a space physicist with Predictive Science Inc. in San Diego. The company focuses on solar research. "But had that hit the ea
Date: Jul 25, 2014
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DAYS from end of life as we know it: Boffins tell of solar storm near-miss
had NASA not bothered to place solar listening stations around the Sun, we never would have known quite how serious the CMEs were. But we may not be so luck next time, and research published in February by physicist Pete Riley shows solar storms of this magnitude are more common than first thought.
Date: Jul 25, 2014
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Time to be afraid - preparing for the next big solar storm: Scientists
Calculations by solar scientist Pete Riley, at Predictive Science Inc, suggest the probability of a solar storm of at least the power of the Carrington Event hitting Earth in the next 10 years is around 12 percent ("On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events", February 20
Date: Jul 25, 2014
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Solar Storm Nearly Pushed Civilization 'Back To The Stone Age'
The chances of a solar storm with the intensity of the Carrington Event - which was more powerful that the 2012 one - hitting the Earth in the next 10 years is about 12 per cent, according to a paper cited by NASA by Pete Riley and published inthe journal Space Weather.
In the February 2014 edition of Space Weather, physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc. warned that the odds of a serious geomagnetic storm hitting Earth in the next ten years was 12 percent. Riley told NASA, "Initially, I was quite surprised that the odds were so high, but the statistics app
Date: Jul 25, 2014
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NASA looks back at the July 2012 Solar Superstorm that just missed Earth
In February 2014, physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc. published a paper in Space Weather entitled On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events. In it, he analyzed records of solar storms going back 50+ years. By extrapolating the frequency of ordinary storms to the