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Blackout 2003 On August 14, 2003 at about 4:10 pm (edt) major losses of electric power occurred in the northestern U.S. and Canada. No cause was determined at the time of the incident, but the outages did not appear to be the result of a terrorist attack. Although the event was felt throughout the entire eastern interconnection, the south and midwestern U.S. were not affected. As of August 15, 2003 the center of this historic power failure appears to began in the state of Michigan, near the city of Lansing when a 345 kilovolt line tripped with no cause reported, soon thereafter cascading throughout the Greatlakes; Ohio, New York City, Ontario, Quebec, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Michehl