Earth is a VERY active place, geologically, and electrically.
Just in the last 150 years we’ve had several large solar storms that affected radios around the world. We’re overdue for one of those. Earthquakes and volcanos are too numerous to mention, but a few, like volcano Krakatoa in 1883, have affected the climate. The earthquake in Alaska in 1964 was enormous. There have been some serious disease outbreaks in that time period too.
Oh, and incidentally, there have been many thousands of UFO sightings just in the last 50 years.
1850 – 1900 warming period ( Victorian era )
1857 Earthquake 7.9 California
1859 Massive solar storm, strongest in history ( no satellites back then )
1864 Civil war, USA
1877 Earthquake, Ecuador
1883 Volcano, Krakatoa – HUGE ash darkened earth
1896 Earthquake 8.5, Japan
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1908 Meteor, Tunguska Russia. flattened millions of trees.
1921 Geomagnetic storm, strongest in 20th century. ( May 14 )
1926 great aurora borealis, hurricane, Miami
1930′s western USA almost a whole decade of devastating dust storms, droughts
1933 busiest hurricane season ever
1938 Aurora Borealis huge
1939-1945 world war, atomic bombs dropped
1942 Discovery of solar radio emission by J.S. Hey
1947 Major sunspots interrupted radio worldwide
1948 Earthquake Turkmenistan HUGE
1958 Sunspots, radio problems
1960 Earthquake, largest in history, Chile
1964 Earthquake, 9.2 Alaska 2nd largest in history
1970 Earthquake, Peru
1980 Volcano Mt. St. Helens
1987 Supernova – first one visible for 380 years
1980′s to now — many, many large earthquakes, too many to list
2004 Tsunami / ocean quake Waves traveled many hundreds of miles.
2009 sun spot cycle extremely quiet
