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goobster  ·  2037 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: As if we didn't have enough to worry about already: EMPs, their types and effects.

I guess my understanding of the physics is faulty. My understanding is that ever CME has an EMP as a sub-element in the event. The severity of the CME increases the severity of the corresponding EMP.

I guess I'd always seen EMPs as analogous to shockwaves: Every explosion has a shockwave, just some of them are more devastating than others, depending on attributes of the explosion.