We just got 'Extreme' EAS alerts in Washington State - 911 out for Western Washington, possibly the state.
News says it is Century Link: https://q13fox.com/2018/12/27/centurylink-outage-impacting-western-washington-911-services/
IPAWS message: http://ipawsnonweather.alertblogger.com/?p=24792
/pol/ says it's an invasion from China, but I think we can discount that theory…
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/197981107
They've been having trouble all evening it seems from news reports. CenturyLink twitter says they've found the network element:
https://twitter.com/CenturyLink/status/1078512853664059392
Odd that would take out the whole west coast internet and 911 in Western Washington.
One device? Really?
I watch that chart a lot. 7 is exciting, and 8 is news. I don't think I've ever seen a Kp=9.