Amazon Web Services recovered Monday morning from a widespread outage that disrupted services for major retailers, airlines, social media apps, financial platforms, and more. AWS infrastructure supports millions of websites and platforms.Air France 447 in 2009, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the recent Germanwings A320 incidents have drawn attention due to their significant impact on the airline industry, often attributing blame to pilot suicide, storms, or poor judgment. Similarly, crashes involving electric trains like the Disney Monorail, DC Metro in 2009, and Amtrak 188 are investigated with discussions of safety devices, track maintenance, or mechanical failure taking center stage.
The public only begins to suspect something larger at play when widespread issues arise. Disruptions in cell phone service are often blamed on blocked tower access or bad weather, while the Blackberry outage in 2008 was attributed to a software glitch. However, engineers maintaining equipment and the grid are not easily deceived. During the Washington DC blackout, an electrical issue initially described as a "surge" hinted at something unusual.
A key distinction exists between a failed electrical system, a simple outage, and an electromagnetic pulse. A pulse causes a surge—a sudden increase in magnetons and electrons—that disrupts equipment reliant on steady particle flow, leading to a runaway state. Surge protection can guard against lightning strikes, shutting down equipment to prevent damage. Yet, absent a lightning strike, such surges may point to the charged tail of Planet X, also known as Nibiru.
What lies ahead for the public? As cell phone service and satellite cable TV continue to degrade, and as planes experience increasing electronics failures or cockpit smoke incidents, the challenges posed by such phenomena may become harder to ignore.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sprawling-brooklyn-housing-comp...
An electrical outage at a massive Brooklyn housing development left 46 buildings — and thousands of tenants — without power Wednesday (July 26), authorities said.
At least 30 residents were stuck in elevators when the power winked out at Spring Creek Towers on Van Siclen Ave. in East New York about 10:15 a.m. The outage came after the complex’s self-sustaining electrical system went down for several hours.
First responders went building to building, checking to see if any tenants were on life-support equipment that depends on electricity, or if anyone was trapped.
“We had to search all of the elevators to make sure there was nobody trapped inside,” Brooklyn Battalion Chief Derek Harkin said. “Approximately 30 people had to be evacuated from the elevator.”
Four people were treated at the scene. Power was restored to the complex at about 12:30 p.m.
Spring Creek Towers, spanning more than 150 acres, was built in 1974. First called Starrett City, it was renamed in 2002, officials said.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/upper-west-side-manho...
July 13, 2017, A fire erupted from Con Edison manholes on the Upper West Side Thursday causing multiple buildings near 72nd St. and Broadway to lose power.
Smoke started rising from the manholes at about 5 p.m. and continued for more than six hours, NBC reported.
FDNY officials said an underground electrical cable caused the fire..."
http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/track-circuit-and-power-fault-r...
Singapore- At rush hour this morning (Jul 25), commuters experienced nothing out of the ordinary — just another day, just another delay. This time, the slow-moving trains and crowded platforms were the result of an intermittent power fault and track circuit fault on both North-South and East-West Lines. Oh joy.
SMRT’s first tweet of the day at 7:26am warned commuters of the pile-up to be expected.
Subsequent updates on the North-South and East-West Lines continued to alert commuters to trains “running at longer intervals”.
But it seems like commuters were already grumbling about delays at least an hour before SMRT’s tweet, saying no announcements were made even though crowds were swarming the stations.
Basically, SMRT was just having another one of its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days.
The latest update at 10:19AM claimed that train services on the North-South Line were back to normal.
The post Track circuit and power fault result in delays and crowds on the No... appeared first on Coconuts.
Rail misery for hundreds of thousands of commuters told not to travel as signal failure hits country's busiest station London Waterloo while Tube also hit by over-running repairs
Hundreds of thousands of commuters face anarchy today after being told not to travel to London where rush hour travellers also faced Tube chaos.
South West Trains said services across the whole of its network, including to and from London Waterloo, may be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised.
Passengers are being advised not to travel to the country's busiest railway station because of a signal failure.
And five Tube lines were also hit with delays and cancellations after signal problems and overrunning engineering works scuppered this morning's commute.
South West Trains said disruption is expected until the end of the day with cancellations and long delays predicted.
A message to passengers said: 'Our control room has confirmed that we have lost all signalling in the Earlsfield area and are not able to run trains into London Waterloo.
'Due to the location, this has taken place our ability to run a train service this morning has been severely hampered.
A Network Rail spokesman said: 'Owing to a major signalling failure overnight, mainline services through Clapham Junction to Waterloo will be delayed or cancelled this morning.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4724018/Rail-misery-hundred...
http://www.dailybreeze.com/environment-and-nature/20170719/yet-anot...
A power outage caused this PBF Energy refinery flare in Torrance last October. Two more flares occurred Wednesday (July 19) , one at the Phillips 66 refinery and another at the Torrance refinery. File photo. (Brad Graverson/The Daily Breeze/SCNG)
For the second time within a month, oil refineries in Wilmington and Torrance have reported flaring events on the same day.
The Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington late Tuesday night reported rele....
No cause was given.
Earlier that day, the Torrance refinery experienced an unexpected flaring event that lasted for a couple of hours after three pump failures in the plant’s hydrocracker unit, the Torrance Fire Department reported via the Torrance Alerts system.
“It’s getting really ridiculous,” said Torrance resident Linda Hicks. “There’s a huge cloud over the refinery from the flaring again.”
Many Torrance residents are fed up with the frequent flaring.
In late June, the Torrance refinery and Tesoro refinery in Wilmington ....
Tuesday’s flaring at the PBF Energy-owned Torrance Refining Co. plant also wa....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-19/nationwide-outage-hits-ban...
In an apparent nationwide system outage, Bank of America customers have been shut out from accessing their accounts and online banking on Wednesday afternoon. As of 4pm ET the outage was continuing with most online systems still frozen.
On Downdetector.com reports starting spiking after 11:30 a.m. and the website was inundated with comments from Bank of America customers around the country saying they couldn’t access online banking from their applications or computers, transfer money or deposit money or checks. Coral Springs resident Eric Sleeper told the Miami Herald that he received what looked like a phishing email from the bank Wednesday and immediately called customer service to see if something was wrong. A message on his online account said it could not pull up his information. When he called his local branch, a manager said that local managers were all calling each other trying to figure out what caused what now seems like a national outage and why they were unable to provide certain services.
Bank of America spokeswoman Jumana Bauwens told the Herald that the bank is aware of the issues with mobile and online banking and is working to fix the problem. Bauwens added that many of the customers who were experiencing difficulties now have accounts that are operating normally.
“I know that the team is working quickly to bring everything back up. As time progresses they should be able to go back online,” Bauwens said.
When asked what caused the outage, Bauwens said she “did not have that information.”
Surprisingly, nobody has yet voiced the theory that it was Russia's crack hackers who are responsible.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, users across the country were reporting issues accessing their accounts.
“@BankofAmerica system wide outage on the day I’m closing on my house and there is nothing they can do about it,” tweeted Twitter user @CapricornLove7.
“The clerk at @BankofAmerica just said I can't make a deposit [because] if [sic] a nationwide disruption. Anyone know what's up?,” tweeted user @Henkenius.
@BankofAmerica system wide outage on the day I'm closing on my house and there is nothing they can do about it
— Kenyata M (@CapricornLove7) July 19, 2017
@BofA_Help @BankofAmerica pic.twitter.com/o9BIRelBak
— steel6869 (@SteveSaumell) July 19, 2017
@BankofAmerica You closed my Bank account with no notice. How can I deposit my check when I no longer have an account. STUCK IN THAILAND
— Dew Clarke ???? (@DewClarke) July 19, 2017
@BankofAmerica what's is up with not being to transfer ? System has been down for the last 3 hrs.
— jenny m portillo (@jennyportillo2) July 19, 2017
The clerk at @BankofAmerica just said I can't make a deposit bc if a nationwide disruption. Anyone know what's up?
— Tom Henkenius (@Henkenius) July 19, 2017
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How many B of A customers may have been affected?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America
As of December 31, 2016, the company held 10.73% of all bank deposits in the United States.[7] It is one of the Big Four banks in the United States, along with Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo—its main competitors.[8][9] Bank of America operates—but does not necessarily maintain retail branches[10]—in all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia and more than 40 other countries.
It has a retail banking footprint that serves approximately 46 million consumer and small business relationships at 4,600 banking centers and 15,900 automated teller machines.
Large power outage reported in central Oak Ridge (July 15, 2017)
A large power outage was reported in central Oak Ridge [Tennessee] early Saturday afternoon.
There were reports that some traffic lights were out, and power was reported out at some businesses and homes.
http://oakridgetoday.com/2017/07/15/large-power-outage-reported-cen...
The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) on Friday called for understanding over the electricity blackout in some parts of Port Harcourt [Nigeria]. (July 15, 2017)
“PHED wishes to inform her valued customers that current power outage that is being experienced in some part of Port Harcourt is as a result of fire outbreak.
“The incident, which took place on Thursday night, damaged a 60 MVA Incomer power transformer, which affected four critical outgoing 33KV feeders.
http://tribuneonlineng.com/port-harcourt-electricity-coy-calls-unde...
Transformer fire causes damage at Georgia Power plant (July 13, 2017)
“We can confirm that there was a transformer fire contained within the switchyard at Plant Bowen today — there is no fire inside the plant structure itself,” Georgia Power spokeswoman Ashley West said.
The term "switchyard" refers to an enclosed area, similar to a substation, in which the energy is moved from the plant itself to the power lines, according to Georgia Power.
West added that the “power delivery system functioned as designed and there were no customer power outages as a result of this incident.”
Plant Bowen, which is located in Cartersville, is the nation’s ninth-largest power plant in net generation of electricity.
Stratford Road re-opens after severe underground electrical fire (July 10, 2017)
A severe electrical fire on a busy Sparkbrook [Birmingham, UK] street broke out in an underground chamber forcing flames to burst out of a manhole cover.
A West Midlands Fire Service spokesman said: "An electrical engineer is on site and has requested a digging team. The fire is being linked to a nearby electricity sub-station".
Rashel Rahman added: "Emergency services were at the scene within five minutes but unfortunately there was a few mini explosions".
The fire was quickly under control but continued to rage for several hours.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/stratford-road-s...
JetBlue plane makes emergency landing at JFK airport
http://nypost.com/2017/07/11/jetblue-plane-makes-emergency-landing-...
A JetBlue plane headed from JFK to Buffalo had to return to the airport for an emergency landing Tuesday morning, FAA officials said.
The Embraer 190 had just taken off at 6:48 a.m. when the plane’s crew noticed the cockpit was filling up with some kind of fumes.
The pilots immediately turned the plane around and landed back at the airport.
There were no reported injuries.
The FAA is investigating the incident.
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http://wfla.com/2017/07/10/smoke-smell-triggers-third-emergency-all...
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – For the third time in as many years, an Allegiant Air flight made an emergency landing at St. Petersburg Clearwater Airport on Sunday (July 9). This time, the reason for that diverted flight was the smell of smoke inside the aircraft.
The flight diversion from the intended destination of Dayton, Ohio happened about eight minutes after takeoff from Punta Gorda Airport. Flight controllers at St. Pete Clearwater Airport scrambled airport fire crews who met the plane on the runway and scanned it with thermal sensors to make sure it wasn’t on fire.
After an all clear, the Allegiant pilots taxied to the gate for a more thorough inspection. The flight continued to Dayton several hours later, but it’s not clear whether Allegiant used the same aircraft.
The FAA tells 8 on Your Side the incident is under investigation. An 8 on Your Side review of aircraft maintenance records did not turn up any major troubles with that particular MD83 aircraft. It was serviced twice at the end of June due to odors from an unknown source.
Last year, another Allegiant Air flight made an emergency landing at St. Pete Clearwater Airport due to an alarming drop in hydraulic fluid pressure. In 2015, Allegiant pilots ordered the emergency evacuation of passengers at St. Pete. Clearwater Airport because of smoke in the cockpit.
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