# Solar storms don't harm people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning the power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables we've strung across the planet are exactly what they attack

> On the night of March 13, 1989, a coronal mass ejection that had left the Sun two days earlier slammed into Earth’s magnetic field, and the entire Hydro-Québec grid collapsed, leaving six million people in the dark on a…

- **Source:** [Spacedaily](https://spacedaily.com/j-v-solar-storms-dont-harm-people-directly-they-induce-electric-currents-in-long-metal-meaning-the-power-lines-pipelines-and-undersea-internet-cables-weve-strung-across-the-planet-are-exactly-what-the/?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a3a327b47aaf9ef91343dc3)
- **Published:** 2026-06-23
- **Category:** Science
- **Tags:** #nothing #people #across #attack #cables #currents #directly #electric
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