Solar Storms Could Be Up to 100x More Damaging if You Live Near Certain Rock Types

The type of rocks you live near could greatly affect how much your area could be damaged by massive solar flares in future, a study has found.

He has been slowly constructing a picture of the arrangement of the rocks making up the North American continent that would buzz with electromagnetic activity in the event of extreme geomagnetic activity spilling from the Sun.

Having locations of potentially electromagnetically active geology is all well and good. But to work out exactly what this means in real-world terms, it's important to calibrate that activity with actual solar storms.

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