A factual comparison of the recent solar storm to the Carrington event
Spoiler - though they were both G5 storms, they weren’t really that comparable.
Also, big as the Carrington Event was, it’s likely it was absolutely dwarfed by one about a millennium ago, the Miyake Event
https://www.astronomy.com/science/a-large-solar-storm-could-knock-out-the-internet-and-power-grid-an-electrical-engineer-explains-how/Open linkView original on lemmynsfw.com