Top 50 geomagnetic storms of 2005

On this page you will find an overview of the strongest geomagnetic storms of 2005 together with links to more information in our archive. Storms are ranked by the Disturbance storm-time index (Dst) that is designed to measure the magnetic signature of magnetospheric currents observed in the equatorial regions. The Dst index is provided by the World Data Center for geomagnetism in Kyoto.

Dst Ap Kp maxSpeedIMF BtIMF Bz
12005/05/15-247nT878+995.2km/sec56.16nT-45.89nT
22005/08/24-184nT1029-760.5km/sec58.79nT-55.68nT
32005/09/11-139nT1018-993.2km/sec25.19nT-11.96nT
42005/08/31-122nT497492.8km/sec20.04nT-19.25nT
52005/05/30-113nT908-519.9km/sec18.99nT-17.16nT
62005/05/08-110nT918+863.9km/sec19.86nT-15.59nT
72005/08/25-106nT225776.7km/sec8.67nT-6.30nT
82005/06/13-106nT326502.5km/sec15.43nT-11.70nT
92005/01/18-103nT848-965.5km/sec29.15nT-25.23nT
102005/06/12-103nT547+549.4km/sec26.04nT-18.06nT
112005/05/16-101nT416+776.1km/sec17.40nT-11.98nT
122005/01/22-97nT336875.2km/sec29.00nT-10.87nT
132005/01/08-93nT367555.0km/sec23.13nT-10.40nT
142005/07/10-92nT576+487.0km/sec25.87nT-22.91nT
152005/09/12-89nT7571025.5km/sec11.80nT-10.57nT
162005/01/21-89nT668975.2km/sec38.90nT-27.71nT
172005/09/13-88nT446800.3km/sec10.28nT-8.83nT
182005/09/01-86nT144+532.2km/sec12.83nT-6.79nT
192005/06/23-85nT507517.9km/sec23.56nT-18.58nT
202005/05/20-83nT235494.9km/sec15.51nT-12.16nT
212005/09/15-80nT527916.7km/sec19.85nT-14.79nT
222005/05/17-80nT164+626.7km/sec9.00nT-6.62nT
232005/01/19-80nT607-1020.9km/sec17.87nT-7.20nT
242005/02/18-80nT326+588.6km/sec23.54nT-19.46nT
252005/07/12-78nT406+571.4km/sec16.40nT-14.19nT
262005/05/31-78nT144-491.0km/sec6.96nT-5.89nT
272005/07/11-75nT215459.5km/sec12.04nT-10.38nT
282005/10/31-74nT175405.2km/sec12.95nT-9.69nT
292005/09/10-73nT336-473.0km/sec15.21nT-10.80nT
302005/01/07-71nT408-605.8km/sec22.17nT-19.74nT
312005/09/04-71nT245-796.0km/sec7.88nT-7.11nT
322005/04/05-70nT507682.7km/sec16.58nT-13.19nT
332005/09/14-69nT184662.5km/sec5.60nT-5.03nT
342005/07/18-67nT245+442.4km/sec11.95nT-9.69nT
352005/01/17-65nT586+824.8km/sec40.22nT-18.07nT
362005/05/18-64nT73-595.2km/sec8.80nT-5.50nT
372005/05/09-64nT104-700.2km/sec9.57nT-5.61nT
382005/09/03-63nT275+709.6km/sec8.39nT-7.23nT
392005/05/21-63nT184438.1km/sec12.35nT-8.67nT
402005/04/12-62nT305552.7km/sec12.83nT-10.60nT
412005/09/16-60nT184740.9km/sec6.38nT-5.79nT
422005/08/26-58nT63-620.3km/sec4.94nT-3.69nT
432005/02/07-57nT306-807.5km/sec18.23nT-10.49nT
442005/07/09-55nT245353.5km/sec15.07nT-10.54nT
452005/05/10-55nT73-615.9km/sec7.62nT-6.41nT
462005/12/11-55nT215-602.0km/sec12.99nT-10.36nT
472005/04/04-54nT266618.7km/sec14.87nT-13.59nT
482005/03/07-54nT406-774.6km/sec12.60nT-10.05nT
492005/01/20-53nT175-896.0km/sec7.97nT-3.03nT
502005/09/18-53nT103655.3km/sec5.07nT-4.63nT
© Potsdam - CC BY 4.0 - Matzka, J., Stolle, C., Yamazaki, Y., Bronkalla, O. and Morschhauser, A., 2021. - ©WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto

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