SIGNS AND WONDERS! Far-side X-class flares, Sun Spot activity out-performing the "experts" predictions: A record number of major quakes in the first two weeks of 2022 going back 120 years and more than 30 volcanoes worldwide showing activity: 2022 begins its first baby steps into the unknown!

A possible X-Class flare earlier this week on the far side of the sun. Credit SOHO

The fledgling new year has already surprised many scientists and experts as 2022 begins its first baby steps into the unknown. 

Record number of major quakes starts off the new year!

It is very early days indeed but halfway through January 2022 and our planet is throwing quite a few surprises our way! On the 11th of January, two powerful major quakes, a mag 6.8 and a mag 6.6 rocked Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The two major quakes,(mag 6 or higher) in Alaska brought the total to 11 in the first 11 days of 2022 which is quite a start to the year, well—it's a record, going back further than 1900. As far as I can see from the USGS data base 11 major quakes in first 11 days of a year has never happened before. And, it hasn't stopped, this morning a magnitude 6.6 rocked the Sunda Straight in Indonesia bringing the total to 12 major quakes, (mag 6 or higher) in the first 14 days of January, 2022.

We know seismic events on earth are influenced by our sun and so far this year the sunspot count is more than out-performing the "experts" predictions:

Credit SOHO.

This is the latest in a series of farside explosions which began earlier this week. The blast site is just behind the sun's northeastern limb, probably an unstable sunspot group. It has been hurling debris over the edge of the sun all week long. 

Solar Cycle 25 is heating up. New sunspot counts from NOAA confirm that the young solar cycle is outperforming the official forecast. You are here:

Sunspot counts have exceeded predictions for 15 straight months. The monthly value at the end of December 2021 was more than twice the forecast, and the highest in more than 5 years. Credit, Spaceweather.com. And that would agree with last year's major quake count of 160—(mag 6 or higher) which was the highest yearly count since the record 'bustin year of 2011.

Credit NOAA

According to NOAA and NASA, this new Solar Cycle, number 25 was predicted to be a quiet, somber affair, however, so far it has proved to be anything but, see graph above. They predicted that Solar Cycle 25 would peak in July 2025 as a relatively weak cycle, similar in magnitude to its predecessor Solar Cycle 24. Instead, Solar Cycle 25 is shaping up to be stronger. Indeed, geomagnetic activity has nearly tripled since the new solar cycle began.

Credit Volcano Discovery

Likewise, volcano disruption around the planet is also very healthy with 25 volcanoes currently erupting and a further 12 showing activity.

1957 is the benchmark, when an incredible 204 major quakes were recorded in one year and more than 300 sunspots.

Spaceweather 2022

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