A powerful EMP event is one of the most devastating things that could possibly happen, and more worryingly also one of the most likely in the pantheon of super disasters.
Be it created by a nuclear bomb or other devices, or even the result of powerful cosmic phenomena, an EMP can turn most electronics and any devices that require them, into useless bricks.
But, there are ways to protect electronics from EMPs. What is necessary? Can an EMP damage or destroy electronics that are simply turned off?
Yes, EMPs can still damage or destroy vulnerable electronics that are turned off because they directly induce damaging currents or voltages into components like integrated circuits, diodes, and transistors.
Keeping your electronics turned off is not enough, by itself, to save them from an EMP if there are otherwise inherently vulnerable to it.
