Northeast blackout of 2003

When

14 Aug 2003

Kind

Event

Coordinates

41.36° N, 81.57° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Northeast blackout of 2003.

An overloaded power grid following the failure of FirstEnergy's alarm system in their control room causes the Northeast blackout of 2003, affecting more than 50 million people in the United States and Canada with nearly 100 related deaths.

Power outage in North America

The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Сбой электросети США и Канады”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el noreste de Estados Unidos y los Grandes Lagos de Canadá sucede un apagón”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2003年美加大停电”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ・カナダで東部を中心に大規模な停電（2003年北アメリカ大停電、BLACKOUT 2003）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page