Not to be left out, just three days in—2025 recorded its first X-Class Solar Flare and came just two days after New Year's Day, G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storm which rocked our magnetosphere forty-eight hours ago. Full Story Here The X1.2 solar flare came from the new active sunspot region 3947 in the northeast section of our Star and is the first X-Class Flare of this new year. 2024 was an explosive year for our Sun when it recorded a record number of X-Class Flares—a massive count of 55, which was an incredible 20 more than the previous record in 2002.
NOAA forecasters have issued a G1-class geomagnetic storm watch for Jan. 4th and 5th when a CME and a stream of solar wind are expected to graze Earth's magnetic field. This should be a relatively minor event, much less intense than the severe G4-class storm of Jan. 1st.
Meanwhile, the second major quake mag 6 or higher of 2025 was recorded last night night. A fairly deep, strong magnitude 6.1 was recorded in the NorthWest mountains of Chile. It's not known if anyone died or if severe damage happened, however, the area is sparsely populated.
A Paradox!
With all the weather phenomena and natural disasters increasing in 2024 you would expect major quakes, (mag 6 or higher) to be increasing too, however, they are going down! The year 2024 proved to be the lowest amount of major quakes (magnitude 6 or higher) recorded in modern times—USGS has recorded only 100 major quakes (mag 6 or higher) for 2024—last year's total is by far the lowest count since the 1980s, see the graph below.
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