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States with areas largely affected by the Southwest Blackout of 2011. The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3]
Oppose the term 'CrowdStrike Outage'. It wasn't a CrowdStrike outage, as there was no outage on behalf of CrowdStrike (unlike the 2021 Facebook outage or the 2023 Optus outage or the various Google services outages). Yes, there were many outages as a result of this incident caused by the CrowdStrike oopsie - but like CrowdStrike itself didn't ...
Sun outage times are published in local newspapers. As the majority of rural Alaska is served by satellite, population centers like Utqiaġvik, Kotzebue, and Nome suffer from this as well. Nome is the terminus of the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and due to its timing, announcements of the finishers are often delayed during these Sun ...
T-Mobile Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Opened on April 6, 2016, it is the home arena of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). A joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), T-Mobile Arena is situated on the Las Vegas Strip behind the ...
A light map of Venezuela on the night of 7 March 2019 and the night of 8 March 2019. [a]Nationwide recurring electrical blackouts in Venezuela began in March 2019. Experts and state-run Corpoelec (Corporación Eléctrica Nacional) sources attribute the electricity shortages to lack of maintenance and to a lack of technical expertise in the country resulting from a brain drain.
The 2000–2001 California electricity crisis, also known as the Western U.S. energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, was a situation in which the U.S. state of California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices. [10]
[9] [17] [18] Nasdaq was shut down for about 30 minutes again in 2014 by a squirrel-induced power outage. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Other commentators have noted that actual cyber attacks by human terrorists are much rarer than disruption caused by squirrels.
[11] The utility's very long transmission lines and the fact that most of Quebec sits on a large rock shield prevented current flowing through the earth, finding a less resistant path along the 735 kV power lines. [12] The James Bay network went offline in less than 90 seconds, giving Quebec its second massive power outage in 11 months. [13]