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The outage was the first time since September 11, 2001, that the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop in the United States. [ 3 ] A preliminary investigation of the incident demonstrated to FAA investigators that a "damaged database file" may have caused the outage of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions ( NOTAM ) system, responsible for notifying ...
Due to the continued power outages across the state, many were faced with freezing temperatures in their homes increasing a risk of hypothermia. [90] The freezing temperatures potentially caused the death of an 11-year old boy, [91] an 84-year-old widow, [22] and a 75-year-old veteran, [92] among others. Zoo, domesticated, and wild animals were ...
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The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine the sufficiency of cooling systems of stored spent fuel rods of nuclear power plants now considered vulnerable to long-term power outages, which could also be caused by space weather, high-altitude nuclear burst electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), or cyber attacks.
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...
The nightly curfew was expected to remain in effect until the power was restored. A shelter was established at the Moore County Sports Complex, and Moore County schools were ordered closed from December 5 through December 8 as a result of the power outage. [9] [23] [24] [6]
The South Australian power grid is operated by ElectraNet and connected to the National Electricity Market via two interconnectors to Victoria.These are the Heywood interconnector (which had recently been upgraded to 650 MW at 275 kV) [8] [9] in the southeast of the state and the Murraylink (220 MW at 150 kV) HVDC further north, connecting Berri to Red Cliffs in Victoria. [10]
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.