List Of Power Outages
This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages. To be included, the outage must conform to all of the following criteria:
- The outage must not be planned by the service provider.
- The outage must affect at least 1,000 people and last at least one hour.
- There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption.
In other words:
- 1,000 people affected for 1,000 hours (42 days) minimum, but if fewer than 1,000 people, event would not be included (regardless of duration)
- One million people affected for a minimum of one hour, but if duration is less than one hour, event would not be included (regardless of number of people)
- For example, 10,000 people affected for 100 hours or 100,000 for 10 hours would be included
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