Cornell University Co-Leads Effort to Use Big Data to Combat Catastrophes
January 31, 2020
January 31, 2020
ITHACA, New York, Jan. 31 -- Cornell University issued the following news on Jan. 30:
In March 1989, a tripped circuit in the Hydro-Quebec power grid left 6 million people without electricity. A week earlier, an unusually harsh snowstorm had strained the region; the day before, a solar flare and accompanying release of plasma and magnetic field sent a mountain of energy propelling toward Earth at a million miles an hour.
The complex interactions of these interconnected . . .
In March 1989, a tripped circuit in the Hydro-Quebec power grid left 6 million people without electricity. A week earlier, an unusually harsh snowstorm had strained the region; the day before, a solar flare and accompanying release of plasma and magnetic field sent a mountain of energy propelling toward Earth at a million miles an hour.
The complex interactions of these interconnected . . .