Has The Solar Flare Hit Earth Yet 2024. These can trigger geomagnetic storms, or disturbances in our planet's magnetic field. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal x9.05 eruption — and it's heading for earth.

On october 3, a flare measured at a strength of x9.0 exploded right in the middle of the solar disk. Solar flares can launch clouds of plasma and radiation, known as coronal mass ejections (cmes), at earth.